From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 08:55:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA11086 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA11069 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id RAA01717; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:55:09 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (RAA13558); Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:57:26 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199606251757.RAA13558@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:57:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu In-Reply-To: from "john goerzen" at Jun 25, 96 08:20:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky