On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 12:45:33AM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> Thank you for all the inputs. This is so useful. I am able to at least
> access the file system and rescue the data.
> However, I'm not able to restore the system yet. The command "pkg_add -u"
> runs into "out of memory error".
> ulimit -a shows decent memory:
> memory(kbytes) 11872836.
you want to increase the data limit, ulimit -d
-Otto
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2024-04-01, Sandeep Gupta <gupta.sand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > However when i tried to log from the console -- the login message shows
> > but
> > > the system logs me out immediately.
> > > On the desktop gui too, with only root I was able to login. But running
> > > xterm from the fvwm menu fails.
> > > I am a bit clueless as to how to gain access to the system.
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > Boot into single-user mode ("boot -s" at the boot loader prompt)
> > fsck -p
> > mount -a -t nonfs
> >
> > Hopefully that will get you access to the system. You can try looking at
> > system logs to see if that gives any clues about the problem. TERM won't
> > be set so you may want to use e.g. "TERM=xterm less /var/log/messages"
> > etc. $HOME/.xsession-errors might give some clues too.
> >
> > If you think that updating packages might help then 'sh /etc/netstart'
> > to get working net and proceed with pkg_add -u as usual.
> >
> >
> >
