Hi, 1. I just heard about a similar problem from a friend of mine, who was running a debian unstable xen guest with a centos5 kernel. After a recent upgrade a similar problem happened to him as well. He had to downgrade the glibc version in order to solve this.
2. There are sources for the Adaptec drivers on IBM site, you might want to consider compiling them with the new Fedora8 kernel (if the vanilla fedora8 kernel does not work with it). - Noam On Dec 6, 2007 3:30 AM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi people. I have here a real conundrum for you: > > I'm operating an IBM server (an X306, I think ? not sure). Anyway it has > a weird setup which is mostly my fault - I wanted to run Fedora on it > but the driver for the Adaptec controler it uses only works with the > RHEL/CentOS 5 kernel, so I installed CentOS 5 and then upgraded > everything but the kernel to Fedora 7. But never mind that - Yesterday I > upgraded to Fedora 8 and after that the server went caput - I can't log > in through SSH or through the console and almost no service manages to > start. > > Looking closely, it appears that it doesn't recognize any user - not > regular users and not system users, and as such most services break. > Surprisingly, I can get the system recognize users by simply accessing > the /etc/passwd file. It looks something like this: > > # getent passwd root > <no output here> > # ls -l /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root ... /etc/passwd > # getent passwd root > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > I could get the server to boot normally and let me log in by > editing /etc/rc.sysinit and after the script mounts the file systems I > added > touch /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow > And now I can log in, but a lot of stuff still doesn't work - for > example xinetd doesn't load any services until I do > ls /etc/protocols, and chkconfig fails with funny error messages about > not being able to list /etc/rc?.d/[SK][0-9][0-9]something. Basically > software can't access files until I get a shell to look at them - > totally haizenberg style. > > What's going on ? I think I can work around the problems by doing > something like > find /etc > /dev/null > but this whole problem is really silly, am I living in a different > reality ? > > I'd appreciate it if someone can pinch me so I'll wake up from this > weird dream. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
