On 3/20/06, Mr FUBAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I pacman'ed -Syu one of my systems last week, and I noticed I couldn't > login anymore through SSH. I blamed my ISP, since I recently changed > and hadn't tried SSH yet. > > But today, I had physical access to the box and the same thing > happened: I enter my username, then the correct password and the > prompt just sits there. > My PuTTY timed out after two hours (when trying the SSH access). > > I read through the upgrade instructions, but they were mostly about > udev changes. I haven't rebooted the box yet though. > > Could someone please give me a hint? Did bash change, or was my > /etc/passwd overwritten, or ... ? The box is acting as a server, so I > don't really feel like booting a live CD if I can fix it without a > reboot.
I had a similar situation some weeks ago. I solved that by entering directly in bash (with init=/bin/bash as parameter in kernel boot line) and found out I had some old configurations in /etc/rc.conf and some other system config file. I had to reboot, tough -- Strat _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
