Try booting with the lilo option: init=/bin/sh This will provide you with a root shell where you can try to fix things...
Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jose M de Aguiar wrote: > Help!!!!! > > I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run > apt-get update > then apt-get upgrade. During the process I answered ALL QUESTIONS WITH > KEEPING THE INSTALLED CONFIGURATION.(Default=N) . Once finished the > upgrade, I was not able to use Real Audio. My default windows manager > was > fvwm95. I restarted the windows manager and doing a login in Debian, as > usual. > But the windows manager was twm. I DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT ALL > DURING UPGRADE!!! > > I decided to reboot the machine. It did go well, however once xdm starts > now I > don't have the Debian Login Window. Instead, now it comes XWindow. > But the worst is: I CAN NOT LOGIN AS USER OR ROOT. It is really serious. > > Something is NOT WORKING IN THE DEBIAN PACKAGE. > > WHAT CAN I DO?????? HOW CAN I RESCUE MY SYSTEM AND FIX IT? > > Please, URGENT reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks a lot!!! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >