system unbootable - libpam.so.0

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 1:49 pm, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> You surely can boot into a level 1 (single-user mode).  This should
> not use pam at all.  Then you can fix it.  Even bringing a network
> up, if you need fresh copies of some packages, should be possible.
>
> In the worst case you can boot "rescue" from CD and use that to
> straighten things.
>
>    Michal
Thanks to you and Tomas. Hadn't thought of using level 1. That did the trick. 
Also didn't know about using yum in single-user mode. Reinstalling libpam did 
the trick. The machine is back up...
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA