Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
Hey there, I am a user of FreeBSD-7.0 and I must say that I am really impressed with it, I must admit though that I used to be(still am) a Linux user, so the switch wasn't that easy but I managed to do it with help from the FreeBSD handbook(My thanks go to the authors of that excellent guide). But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. Thanks in advance for any help on this problem. Regards, Pramod Dematagoda ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit 4 to boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. reboot and you should be good to go. Hey Jeremy, Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. Regards, Pramod Dematagoda ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote: On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit 4 to boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. reboot and you should be good to go. Hey Jeremy, Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. There should be in indication in /var/log/messages or /var/log/auth.log. I checked /var/log/messages, and I found something interesting, it seems that csh exits with signal 11(core dumped) right after a root login, there is nothing out of the ordinary in auth.log. But now what do I do to fix the problem, change the shell? Regards, Pramod Dematagoda ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:15:25AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Are you sure this machine does not have hardware problems? Please download and run memtest86++ from a CD. You shouldn't have to run this very long (15-20 minutes at tops in this case); errors will be quite obvious. Oops, this should have been memtest86+. :-) http://www.memtest.org/ I did the memtest and it passed. I changed the shell to /bin/sh and it now seems to work fine, but really saying, sh seems to be crippled compared to csh, so I would like to get back to csh. I can help you guys debug the problem, but I am not a debug wizard, so please forgive me if I am slow on the uptake of some of your instructions:). Regards, Pramod Dematagoda ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:19 -0700, mdh wrote: --- On Fri, 10/31/08, Pramod Dematagoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pramod Dematagoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 To: Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD ML freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 11:09 AM On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote: On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit 4 to boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. reboot and you should be good to go. Hey Jeremy, Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. There should be in indication in /var/log/messages or /var/log/auth.log. I checked /var/log/messages, and I found something interesting, it seems that csh exits with signal 11(core dumped) right after a root login, there is nothing out of the ordinary in auth.log. But now what do I do to fix the problem, change the shell? Yeowzers. Change it to /bin/sh for now. Once you're back up, it'd be interesting to debug this. Would you like to? - mdh I found something a bit more interesting, csh crashes regardless of the user account to which it is used for, so something is wrong with csh itself and not the root account. Regards, Pramod Dematagoda ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
