Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:39:46 +0530 From: Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: FreeBSD ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <1225465786.10152.3.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> In-Reply-To: <200810311600.20023.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> 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>
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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > > > But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the > > > > root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the > > > > login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This > > > > started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD > > > > ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself > > > > previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the > > > > problem. > > > > > > Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit "4" to > > > boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: > > > > > > # mount -a > > > # mount -o rw -u / > > > # passwd root > > > > > > And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. > > > > Hey Jeremy, > > > > Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did > > not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still > > cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. > > There should be in indication in /var/log/messages or /var/log/auth.log. > I checked /var/log/messages, and I found something interesting, it seems that csh exits with signal 11(core dumped) right after a root login, there is nothing out of the ordinary in auth.log. But now what do I do to fix the problem, change the shell? Regards, Pramod Dematagoda
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