[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: None

[Tom McDonald]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:34:11 -0500 (CDT)
Ed Coates <edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, linux wrote:
> 
> > Ed Coates writes:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > Good tip! Found several errors shown in tty10-12:
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device found
> > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device found
> > SIOCSIFBRDADDR:  No such device found
> 
> Those errors are associated with trying to setup a network card, and the
> device not being found.
> 
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.boot: hdpram: command not found
> 
> hdparm is used to set different parameters for your harddrives
> 
> > Starting at deamon: /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S40atd: echo_success: command not found
> 
> atd is a daemon similar to cron, but you set a job to run once and only
> once, instead of re-ocurring
> 
> > Starting at deamon: /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S41atd: echo_success: command not
> > /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S98local: /sbin/ipchains: no such file or directory
> 
> ipchains is for your firewall
> 
> Sounds like either one of a couple of things.  Watch it closely when you
> boot it to see if it sees all of your harddrives that it should.  Possibly
> not seeing/mounting a harddrive, or the other possibility that you may
> have been hacked.  I might take the machine off the network if it's
> connected to the internet just in case until you can resolve these
> problems.
> 
> Did you try to boot into single user mode at the boot prompt?  Just
> manually type in     linux single  should do it.  Then you can check out
> the hardware.
> 
> Ed
> 
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I've had similar problems with GDM/KDM/XDM not getting the authorization
right so any user that trys to login is not allowed.  I would try to boot
to runlevel 3 (linux 3 at lilo boot prompt) then login as a user and run
startx.  

If you can login and execute X with the startx script, then you will have 
to start tracking down why GDM/KDM/XDM isn't setting up auth correctly.

If you can't login on runlevel 3 then you may have a problem with pam or
passwords etc.  In any event /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth
may give a clue.



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Tom McDonald <tom at compuclaim.com>
Compuclaim Inc.


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