For unknown reason my Gentoo 1.4 box can't start after running 'emerge -u world' Login as ROOT does not need root-password (key in root-password popup invalid password) and can't login as USER.
Incidentally Fail-Safe can be started
cat /etc/fstab found following difference.
ReiserFS changed to xfs; /dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0
following line being added; none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
Can I delete above line and change 'xfs' back to 'reiserfs' to fix starting problem?
# cat /etc/passwd root:x:0,0:root:root:/bin/bash ... ... Operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash
(USER/satimis not found there)
How to restore 'root-password' and re-add USER. Whether;
# /etc/passwd passwd
and
# /etc/passwd useradd
can solve my problem.
This test box without backup therefore I have to taking precaution on each step made.
TIA
B.R. Stephen Liu
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