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- From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: cannot login at all!!!
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 03:54:38 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- In-reply-to: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu's message of 8 Jan 93 01:54:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.015410.15298@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
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- From: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:54:10 GMT
-
- i deleted /etc/utmp in a virtual console and tried to login from another
- VC, but linux said "/etc/utmp: no such file or directory" and i was not
- allowed to login...
-
- then i created /etc/utmp with a single carriage return in it and tried
- logging in aain. this time it said:
- must start from the lowest "sh"... something like that...
-
- I just got bit by the same thing -- I figured that the LOGIN lines
- that "w" was showing me were garbage (I still think so, but they seem
- to be intentional garbage...) so I emptied the file, rebooted, and got
- the "must start from lowest level "sh"" message.
- The fix: boot from H Lu's rootdisk, mount my linux partition
- under /mnt, and then cp /etc/utmp /mnt/etc/utmp, then reboot and we're
- back in business.
- _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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