Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:43:35 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "JP" <planoprez@yahoo.com>, "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Login at the Console on FreeBSD 6.0 Release Message-ID: <004101c74c15$9ffcaf70$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <309787.35551.qm@web33608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44mz3oog2f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "JP" <planoprez@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:54 AM Subject: Re: Can't Login at the Console on FreeBSD 6.0 Release > JP <planoprez@yahoo.com> writes: > > > So I'm not quite sure what happened here, someone with root access, > > who probably shouldn't have had it managed to make a mess of things. > > He claims he was trying to install source files and on reboot he > > could no longer login to the system. I am able to boot into single > > user mode, I see that login is core-dumping on signal 11 and as such > > I can't login to the box. Ftp, SSH, and other services are not > > responsive and don't even attempt to allow me to login remotely. > > > > I'd like to be able to login at the console, and be able to FTP into > > the box so I can pull everything down and do a fresh install. Any > > suggesitons on how to do this? I already did a passwd root and > > created a new password thinking it would fix things, but it didn't. > > At the console, it just asks for Login, and then password and then > > keeps looping if though I am putting in the right information. > > If it were my machine to fix, I would start with a binary "upgrade" > off of CD. Same here - and make sure to delete and recreate the partitions for good measure. Ted
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