Thank you for all the inputs. This is so useful. I am able to at least
access the file system and rescue the data.
However, I'm not able to restore the system yet. The command "pkg_add -u"
runs into "out of memory error".
ulimit -a shows decent memory:
memory(kbytes) 11872836.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org>
wrote:
> On 2024-04-01, Sandeep Gupta <gupta.sand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However when i tried to log from the console -- the login message shows
> but
> > the system logs me out immediately.
> > On the desktop gui too, with only root I was able to login. But running
> > xterm from the fvwm menu fails.
> > I am a bit clueless as to how to gain access to the system.
>
> Try this:
>
> Boot into single-user mode ("boot -s" at the boot loader prompt)
> fsck -p
> mount -a -t nonfs
>
> Hopefully that will get you access to the system. You can try looking at
> system logs to see if that gives any clues about the problem. TERM won't
> be set so you may want to use e.g. "TERM=xterm less /var/log/messages"
> etc. $HOME/.xsession-errors might give some clues too.
>
> If you think that updating packages might help then 'sh /etc/netstart'
> to get working net and proceed with pkg_add -u as usual.
>
>
>
