From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 6:55:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparticus.bright.net (sparticus.bright.net [205.212.123.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C8514C13 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slay3241@bright.net) Received: from bright.net (akro-max2-cs-16.dial.bright.net [209.143.19.67]) by sparticus.bright.net (8.9.3/8.9.3 ComNet Build) with ESMTP id JAA26960 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <380B26CC.3D82FDBA@bright.net> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:55:24 -0400 From: bill slaybaugh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD List Subject: flaky single user boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having done the equivalent of losing my root password: at login I get "/etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory". I've tried the single user boot, but I never get prompted for the shell choice. As the system starts there is a line: "export: SHELL#: bad variable name" I obviously don't understand the relationship between the passwd file and whatever /etc/spwd.db is. Any help is greatly appreciated. Bill Slaybaugh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message