Cannot login after updating yesterday

Ian Puleston ian at underpressuredivers.com
Wed Jun 1 22:27:29 UTC 2005


Hi,

I've been running FC4 test 2, and figured that with FC4 release imminent
things should be pretty stable by now, so yesterday I ran up2date to update
everything, initially bar the Kernel. Mostly went OK but there were a few
problems afterwards:
 - GNOME desktop icons had vanished and I couldn't find a way to recreate
them.
 - Right-click on GNOME desktop didn't bring up usual menu.
 - I couldn't login to CUPS.

Then I decided to update the remaining items (kernel, kernel-devel, etc.)
too. This update went OK except that up2date hung at the end of the
installation phase. On re-running it, it told me everything was up to date
so I rebooted.

Now, with the new Kernel, I cannot login in at all. Trying to login as root
or another user gives an error "no shell" and then back to the login prompt.

Is there any way to get round this other than a full re-install?

Ian







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