On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:00, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > 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. > I've just been through this myself. In my case it was genkernel that did me in. So what I've done was rename the old one back, and remove the new one.
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