Cannot login after yum update
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Nov 5 01:26:56 UTC 2007
Stephen Pusey writes:
> I am not sure if this is the right forum - but would appreciate help. I
> did a yum update on November 1st using a development Fedora 8. After
> this I rebooted the machine (a leased server) and could not ssh as root.
> I could access the site via webmin and by "re-enabling" the users I could
> then start ssh and other services. I then rebooted and found that I could
> not login with either ssh or with webmin. I currently have the server
> mounted through a gentoo CD. However, I am stumped. I think the issue
> may be with pamd - but everything looks fine. I also suspect xinetd.
> Looking at the messages logs I see a EXT-fs check was forced on the disk
> on a reboot.
That indicates that the disk was corrupted. You're boned.
There's no real way to determine what ended up being broken, without doing a
more complete, detailed analysis. There could be any number of hundreds of
differents reasons why your system is screwed up.
The easiest thing to do is to just reinstall.
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