Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

[Stephen Liu]

Hi

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything.  You need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of file systems in.

Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo.
 

I have not run 'etc-upgrade'.  The problem happened after 'emerge -u 
world'.  Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same 
trap.

Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore.  Neither I 
am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as 
USER.  I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system.  I 
am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab.  Any suggestion?

TIA

B.R.
Stephen
 

From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 04:00:26 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'
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.

TIA

B.R.
Stephen Liu
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