It seems you might have broken it quite badly... :(

Someone might have a fix, but if I was in you place, I would use the system
rescue feature to simply rescue all data on the HDD, and then simply do a
clean install.

Best,

Christopher Svanefalk



On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Patrick Dupre <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-07-27 19:45, Bill Shirley wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2012 6:12 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-07-24 02:03, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you still log into the normal tty:s? Try ctrl-alt-f6 for example.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, I can just not login on the machine
>>> When I boot from another installation and mount the volume, the
>>> permission seems right.
>>>
>>>  Not sure exactly what is broken here...but running "ls -l /usr/bin |
>>>> grep login"  and see what it says. Possibly some permissions were not
>>>> set properly because of the failed update.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I cannot login, so, I cannot make a ls command.
>>> I use to log in text mode.
>>>
>>>  Best,
>>>>
>>>> Christopher Svanefalk
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Dupre <[email protected]
>>>> [6]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to update a fedora 16 to 17. Unfortunately, the update
>>>>> failed
>>>>> very soon after the starting.
>>>>> Then, no way to try again to update, the distribution was not
>>>>> recognized.
>>>>> Anyway, I was able to boot the distribution, but at the login,
>>>>> after I
>>>>> give a login name I get:
>>>>> tty1: cant exec /bin/login permission denied
>>>>>
>>>>> What are your recommendations?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>> If it's a selinux problem, boot the distribution, mount the
>> partition, and edit /etc/selinux/config.  Change to
>> SELINUX=permissive
>>
>> then reboot.  Hopefully that will get you logged in so you can find
>> the problem.  I suggest a re-label.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> It does not help!!!!!
>
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