Re: techniques to fix damaged systems

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

Craig White wrote:
> > The same thing happens to all users, except root. Something is badly 
> > broken in the login process. X does not start, and text console logins 
> > also fail.
> ----
> is it possible that /home is mounted as read-only or not mounted at all?

No, /home is not a separate mount - it is under /. It is a simple system.


> You might first want to run e2fsck on all the file systems which I think
> you can invoke by issuing the following command (as root)...
>
> shutdown now -Fr

Good idea! Thanks!


- Mike