Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:24:52 +0530 From: Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <1225468492.11129.3.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> In-Reply-To: <20081031152647.GA35240@icarus.home.lan> References: <1225459744.3714.10.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> <20081031140946.GA33710@icarus.home.lan> <1225464803.8828.2.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> <200810311600.20023.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <1225465786.10152.3.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> <20081031151525.GB34850@icarus.home.lan> <20081031152647.GA35240@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:15:25AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Are you sure this machine does not have hardware problems? Please > > download and run memtest86++ from a CD. You shouldn't have to run this > > very long (15-20 minutes at tops in this case); errors will be quite > > obvious. > > Oops, this should have been memtest86+. :-) > > http://www.memtest.org/ > I did the memtest and it passed. I changed the shell to /bin/sh and it now seems to work fine, but really saying, sh seems to be crippled compared to csh, so I would like to get back to csh. I can help you guys debug the problem, but I am not a debug wizard, so please forgive me if I am slow on the uptake of some of your instructions:). Regards, Pramod Dematagoda
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