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On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:57:05 +0700
Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote:
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> > Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> 
> did you try to boot into single user mode?
> 
> What shells do you have installed?
> 
> Erich

This is the default shell. I didn't try that yet, because I don't want
to be left with no way to login at all if something is really messed up.

Since I could not even switch to a no console (ctrl+alt+f2...) and
login I'm not really wanting to reboot at this point.


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