On July 1, 2004 09:21 am, James Pifer wrote: > I have a Redhat 9 system that I can't access. The system was starting to > act very sluggish and I couldn't umount a smb share. So I decided just > to give it a reboot. Shutdown seemed normal but when it came back up it > forced a disk check saying the disk was not clean. > > Then it wanted me to run fsck to fix errors, which I did. Now the system > comes up but the only access I have is through a smb share. Just to > reboot it I had to modify crontab and add the shutdown command. > > -I can't login at the console, but I don't get any errors. Won't even > prompt me for password. > -ssh fails to load: sshd: RSA1 key generation failed > -webmin starts but is not accessible. Get a perl execution failed error. > -vncserver: vncserver start failed > -and I also see this in messages: > su: PAM _pam_init_handlers: could not open /etc/pam.conf > su: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize handlers > su: PAM pam_end: NULL pam handle passed > su: su: incorrect password > > Any suggestions where to start resolving these issues? > > Thanks, > James Hi, If there is a problem with the disk (that fsck can correct), you need to run fsck from a boot disk or from the install CD. In order for fsck to reliably repair a fs problem, the file system cannot be mounted. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
