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- From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
- Subject: Re: Cant login on console, HELP
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.222513.12245@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
- References: <yvent.716198830@theseas>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:25:13 GMT
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- yvent@ntua.gr (Yiannis Ventikos)
- writes on comp.sys.sgi:
-
- )I hope this is not a very FAQ, I am new to the IRIX
- )world. Here it is: when I try to login on my console
- )I cant. I clik the icon, I type in the password (where
- )necessary) and after 3-4 seconds I am back to the login
- )screen. I cant even login to root. If I telnet to the
- )machine everything runs smoothly. I have tried FAILSAFE,
- )wont do. I x for reading this. E-mailing is preferable.
- )BTW, I think that the little icons with the user names
- )are much darker than they were when the system was
- )operational.
-
- I had a similar problem and will explain the problem for the benefit
- of anyone who might face this one. Apparently this bug persists on
- 4.0.5 too as the SGI person Ross Oliver informs me. Thanks Ross.
-
- Nope. I don't think it is a FAQ.
-
- Try reset(ting) your machine. When the machine boots up, go to the
- PROM monitor (by pressing escape), switch to single user mode inside
- the PROM monitor (by typing single). Try "mount /dev/usr /usr". If the
- message is "Filesystem dirty" or something similar, do an "fsck -y
- /dev/usr" and do a manual mount ("mount /dev/usr /usr"). If you see
- the filesystem, then everything should be ok and the problem is with a
- file in /etc/config. Try outputting the contents of
- /etc/config/system.glGammaVal. If there is nothing in the file, echo
- 1.7 (yes, 1, decimal point, 7) into that file. Do a "shutdown" and
- wait for the system to boot up normally.
-
- If it is not ok after all this, you have a different problem on hand.
-
- )* Yiannis Ventikos
-
- Sridhar.
-