Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:57:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! Message-ID: <199606251757.RAA13558@CoDe.CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960625080946.22401A-100000@mccoy> from "john goerzen" at Jun 25, 96 08:20:51 am
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> I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 9605?? to 960612 SNAP. The biggest > problem is this: > > I cannot login! As root, as my normal user account, etc. It just says > "Invalid login." After rebooting the first time under the new OS, I did > not have to enter a password for root. I did copy passwd and > master.passwd from the backup of the etc directory, ran pwd_mkdb or > whatever that program is called, etc. No go! I was using DES for > passwords, BTW. And yes, I did install the encryption stuff from the > sysinstall program. > > Now then...The reason I upgraded was a kernel panic when I accidentally > bumped the eject button on my Sony CDU33A CD-ROM drive. I relized my > mistake as soon as I did it, and wanting to prevent and problems, I > quickly unmounted it. Then I got a kernel panic. There were no programs > attempting to access the CD-ROM at the time. Try to boot to single-user mode with boot -s! And a question: are there any upgrades to the CDU-33A code in this version? (I have this CD too, I made the same error, my machine crashed too. But I'm really miss the cd-lock functionality from that driver. - My son likes to push my machine's buttons - I have to disable the reset, the turbo switch, but with FBSD, I cannot lock the CD - I can do it under DOS. I've the 2.1R.) -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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