On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:31:28 +0530, Bhaskar wrote: > > > I am able to boot the kernel. But after i enter the login and > > > password, instead of going to command prompt it keeps on asking > > > for login. It does not even show incorrect login. I have entered > > > correct username and password. > > You would definitely see invalid login. But you cannot make out of it > as it fast. > Check out if you have all these files. If any one is missing, you will > get such problems. > > /etc/motd > /etc/passwd > /etc/nologin > /etc/usertty > .hushlogin Except it's not true. I do not have /etc/nologin nor /etc/usertty and don't have any problems with that. It depends on what is in your /etc/pam.d/login (assuming you have a pam login, which you may not). In fact I believe, that /etc/nologin and ~/.hushlogin must NOT be there. Also, failing login is not the only possible source of the problem. Failing login shell would have the same result. There is a neat trick. Boot the kernel with parameter init=/bin/bash Bash will run instead of init. You should not get login, no startup scripts should run. Then you can try to run login manualy and see what happens. You should also be able to inspect log files -- login probably left some traces there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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