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- From: chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: /etc/passwd gone or corrupted: what now?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.162916.13009@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:29:16 GMT
- Organization: School of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK
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- I needed to change my login shell. So I logged in as root
- and performed
- passmgmt -m -s /bin/sh toby
- When I logged out there was a kernel panic with a message
- "software detected SEGV"
- and the system wrote a corefile.
- We reset the machine as requested. When checking the disk
- using fsck all was OK apart from
- su: unknown id: sys
- chown: unknown id: root
- The login screen showed no users at all.
- Trying to start it in single-user mode gave something like
- su: no such user: root
- repeatedly. We can ping the machine, but cannot ftp or
- telnet or rlogin to it.
-
- This is with Irix 4.0.1 on a 4D/35
-
- Help!
-
- Toby
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- Toby Kelsey
- School of Chemistry, # JANET: chpetk@uk.ac.bath.gdr, otherwise
- University of Bath. # chpetk%gdr.bath.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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