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- From: kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing)
- Subject: fsck problem in single user mode
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.113332.22423@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Keywords: fsck, single user
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 11:33:32 GMT
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- Hello there,
- today we had a problem with a mangled root entry in /etc/passwd.
- To fix it, we booted single user and manually did a /etc/fsck /dev/usr
- in order to be able to mount it and use 'vi'. However, fsck wanted to
- print a message like 'UNREF FILE, OWNER=root', but what was printed was
- 'UNREF FILE, OWNER=Bus error (ore dumped)', fsck was not able to
- continue beyond this point.
- With 'echo' we created a passwd file with only the root entry,
- after that fsck worked. Perhaps one could fix this ?
-
- Rainer Kleinrensing rainer@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
- Institute for Applied Mathematics
- Freiburg University
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- Rainer Kleinrensing,203-3068 <kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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