Login Problem please help

[Simon Andrews]

konias wrote:
> Hi all
> My Fc5 Pc had been shutdown due an unexpected power loss
> After restart i cant login ....like someone changed roots password...
> any ideas???

If this happened after a power cut then it's possible that your disk has 
become corrupted, which might have all sorts of odd effects.

Try booting off a rescue CD (you can use the first install CD for this 
and type "linux rescue" at the boot prompt) and running an fsck over the 
disk to fix any errors (e2fsck -p /dev/hda1 [replace /dev/hda1 with the 
actual name of your drive partitions - repeat for each partition]).

If it still doesn't work then let us know what errors you are getting 
and whether you're using a graphical or text based login.  If you've 
only tried a graphical login then press Control+Alt+F1 and try to log in 
on a console and see if you see any messages.