Thanks Oliver. You nailed it. I had forced install of libreadlineg2, libc6 and a bunch of other stuff postgresql 6.2.1 was complaining about that it needed. Boy! am I sorry I did that. What a mess. My dotmatrix printer now prints a line a minute. Still can't figure that one out. Fixed startx. Anyway you mentioned changing /bin/bash to some other shell. I tried csh and it made it possible to login. But when I tried to run some scripts I got segmentation fault. So I reinstalled libreadline2 from cdrom. Booted and I get my usuual login prompt.
Now maybe you can help. How do I get libreadling2 to install. With it I can run the progres psql. Without it I get a buzzing sound until I control-C. I think I still have libc6 in there. But maybe that's why am having trouble with printing. Also can you tell me what version of progres you run . Incidently I sent you a message a few days before I got into this jam. To [email protected] and pointed out to you that the URL in your signature is broken. Thanks. Chuma Oliver Elphick wrote: > Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I > >can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it > >reaches: > >INIT: entering runlevel: 2 > >Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various > >daemons > >Now it says: Debian Linux 1.3 (none) tty1 > >(none) ????? That's not what it used to say. > > > >(none) login: > > > >No matter how I login : even as root it takes me back to (none) login: > > > >If I try <ctrl><alt><del> it loops also on the following: > > > >"Give root password for maintenance" > >(or type Control-D for normal startup): > > > >Only way out is a hard reset > > > >Please help. If there is any way rather than reinstall. > > You need to find what in particular is broken. Boot from your floppy or > CD and investigate. > > The login prompt is started by getty, which then calls login, which then > starts a shell. /etc/init.d/rc is a bash shellscript as well, and bash is > what you would get into from the single-user login; so it looks as if your > bash has been damaged, or perhaps a shared library that bash needs: > $ ldd /bin/bash > libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x40011000) > libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40033000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40078000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4007b000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > > Try booting from a floppy/CD and putting /bin/ash (or whatever other shell > you have that doesn't depend on an unmounted file-system) in the shell field > of > the password entry (make sure you edit the one on your hard disk, rather than > on the ramdisk.) > > Incidentally, I have installed postgresql a number of times with no problem. > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver > > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
