skipped services in runlevel 5 but cannot log in on command line

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I have a system that had been working flawlessly but but have now broken.

When I boot I eventually get a command line login with the prompt:

Welcome to openSUSE 11.3 “Teal” - Kernel 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop (tty1)

(none) login:

When I type in a user name and enter it does not prompt for password but immediately tells me the login is incorrect and returns to the login prompt.

I can boot using another linux on another hard disk and read the suse file systems and fsck them but that hasn’t helped.

Part of the boot.msg is:


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Boot logging started on /dev/char/../tty1(/dev/console) at Wed Feb 16 18:35:51 2011

<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:51.81787000> service boot.startpreload startdone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:51.545399000> service boot.startpreload done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:51.554886000> service boot.udev startok
Starting udevd: udevd[503]: can not read '/etc/udev/rules.d/79-yast2-drivers.rules'


done
Loading drivers, configuring devices: done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.804882000> service boot.udev done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.804951000> service boot.loadmodules start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.805097000> service boot.rootfsck startLoading required kernel modules
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.829312000> service boot.loadmodules doneActivating swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
failed
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.894335000> service boot.rootfsck done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:53.894388000> service boot.clock startSet System Time to the current Hardware ClockWed Feb 16 18:35:55 2011  -0.515741 seconds
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:54.510387000> service boot.clock done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:54.510575000> service boot.device-mapper start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:54.510730000> service boot.localfs startActivating device mapper...
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:54.582251000> service boot.device-mapper doneChecking file systems...
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
SuSE_home: clean, 151593/8331264 files, 25108728/33300729 blocks
donedone
Mounting local file systems...
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,mode=1777)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sdb7 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.453895000> service boot.localfs done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454087000> service boot.cycle start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454265000> service boot.klog start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454429000> service boot.localnet start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454596000> service boot.proc start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454764000> service boot.scpm start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.454928000> service boot.swap start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.501051000> service boot.proc done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.501099000> service boot.udev_retry start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.502194000> service boot.scpm done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.502242000> service setserial start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.504311000> service boot.cycle doneFinish udev device configuration: done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:57.586396000> service boot.udev_retry doneSetting up loopback interface /sbin/ifup: line 283: awk: command not found
    lo        
scripts/ifup-sysctl: line 113: awk: command not found
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8   
              IP address: 127.0.0.2/8   
done
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<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.665255000> service haldaemon doneLoading CPUFreq modulesdone
Starting HAL daemondone
Re-Starting syslog services
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.665554000> startproc: execve (/sbin/rsyslogd)  /sbin/rsyslogd -c 5 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/rsyslogd ]
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.678386000> service syslog done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.678423000> service rpcbind start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.678570000> service auditd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.678715000> service splash_early start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.678864000> service vboxdrv start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.688953000> startproc: execve (/sbin/rpcbind)  /sbin/rpcbind ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/rpcbind ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.691206000> service splash_early done<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.701780000> service rpcbind doneStarting rpcbind done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.701858000> service nfs start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.707097000> startproc: execve (/sbin/auditd)  /sbin/auditd -s disable ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/auditd ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.728836000> service vboxdrv doneStarting VirtualBox kernel modulefailed
  (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.810557000> service auditd doneStarting auditd done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.845115000> service nfs doneNot starting NFS client services - no NFS found in /etc/fstab:unused
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.845184000> service sshd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.845431000> service kbd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.851792000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd)  /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ]
Starting SSH daemondone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:35:59.865282000> service sshd doneLoading keymap assuming iso-8859-15 euro
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
doneLoading compose table latin1.adddone
Start Unicode mode
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48013000> service kbd done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48327000> service xdm start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48473000> service alsasound start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48615000> service avahi-daemon start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48767000> service bluez-coldplug start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.48922000> service cups start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.49076000> service irq_balancer start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.49243000> service java-binfmt-misc start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.49401000> service mcelog start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.69382000> service java-binfmt-misc doneStarting java.binfmt_misc done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.69562000> service network-remotefs start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.71385000> service bluez-coldplug donedone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.71433000> service splash start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.80286000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd)  /usr/sbin/cupsd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.81546000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/mcelog)  /usr/sbin/mcelog --daemon --pidfile /var/run/mcelog.pid ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/mcelog ]
Starting service gdmunused
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.83103000> service xdm done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.88975000> service avahi-daemon doneStarting Avahi daemon done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.89126000> service avahi-dnsconfd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.96572000> service mcelog doneStarting mcelog... done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.97412000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/irqbalance)  /usr/sbin/irqbalance ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/irqbalance ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.102121000> service alsasound done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.103781000> service splash done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.110346000> service avahi-dnsconfd doneStarting Avahi DNS Configuration daemon done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.112336000> service irq_balancer doneStarting irqbalance done
Starting cupsddone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.183352000> service cups doneSetting up (remotefs) network interfaces:
Setting up service (remotefs) network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.318646000> service network-remotefs done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.318691000> service ntp start/etc/init.d/ntp: line 60: awk: command not found
/etc/init.d/ntp: line 61: awk: command not found
/etc/init.d/ntp: line 60: awk: command not found
/etc/init.d/ntp: line 61: awk: command not found
/etc/init.d/ntp: line 60: awk: command not found
/etc/init.d/ntp: line 61: awk: command not found
Time could not be synchronized
Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.366732000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/ntpd)  /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -i /var/lib/ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ntpd ]
done
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.369743000> service ntp done<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.369922000> service nscd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.370075000> service postfix start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.376829000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd)  /usr/sbin/nscd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.379694000> service nscd doneStarting Name Service Cache Daemondone
Starting mail service (Postfix)
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.640236000> service postfix donedone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.640374000> service cron start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.640628000> service smartd start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.664979000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron)  /usr/sbin/cron ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ]
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:00.667865000> service cron doneStarting CRON daemondone
Starting smartd 
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:03.186091000> service smartd donedone
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:03.186287000> service stoppreload start<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:03.191990000> service stoppreload donedone
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Skipped services in runlevel 5: earlyxdm nfs xdm splash
<notice -- Feb 16 18:36:03.194137000> killproc: kill(1319,3)

I could not include the full file as it was too long but there was much whinging about not finding awk.

Similar posts have been solved by logging in as root then running sax2 to fix the X configuration but I can’t log in.

The problem appeared after I had installed sotware to read ext2/3/4 filesystems in Windows (yes I accept that was unwise) and I had also tried running Aptosid live from a pen drive. The video settings were wrong and I had to restart to get out of it. I don’t know whether either or neither of these has caused the problem but the problem appeared the first time I tried to boot openSUSE after that.

Any suggestions other than “Don’t play with a working system”? I don’t really want to reinstall if I don’t have to.

This is my first post

Thanks

#2

Can you boot to a liveCD and confirm that your hard disk partitions ( / and /home) are not full ?

#3

Hmmm … it appears you have done this free space check already.

This worries me that you may have over written system file(s) essential for the boot.

I assume you tried the Fail Safe boot ?

#4

If you can boot another Linux system. I suggest you do that and backup anything you need from this damaged install of openSUSE

#5

Boot for a live cd and save your files.

#6

On 2011-02-20 11:06, lateblight wrote:

> scripts/ifup-sysctl: line 113: awk: command not found

Install awk. For this you will need to boot another linux, mount this one,
mount bind proc, dev and sys, then chroot, and use rpm command line to
install awk.

> Similar posts have been solved by logging in as root then running sax2
> to fix the X configuration but I can’t log in.

No way similar.

> The problem appeared after I had installed sotware to read ext2/3/4
> filesystems in Windows (yes I accept that was unwise)

Unrelated. Prove it :slight_smile:

Reading files or installing things in windows can not affect. Writing, yes.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#7

It isn’t fixed but is at least different. Thanks robin_listas.

It can now find awk after I booted into Fedora mounted the suse root directory and issued this command

chroot /media/SUSE rpm -U --force ./gawk-3.1.6-31.1.x86_64.rpm

I still can’t log into SUSE as the command line login won’t prompt for a password the same as before.

The new boot.msg from about where I think things may be going wrong is below:



Starting acpid done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.95402000> service acpid doneInitializing random number generatordone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.97525000> service random done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.98519000> start_daemon: execve (/bin/dbus-daemon)  /bin/dbus-daemon --system ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/start_daemon DAEMON=/bin/dbus-daemon ]
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.105379000> service dbus doneStarting D-Bus daemondone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.105528000> service haldaemon start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.106117000> startproc: execve (/sbin/rsyslogd)  /sbin/rsyslogd -c 5 -f /etc/rsyslog.early.conf ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 SPLASHCFG= PWD=/ DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 SHLVL=2 HOME=/ DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=no splash=silent ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/rsyslogd ]
Starting jexec services
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.108550000> service jexec doneStarting syslog servicesdone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.209795000> service earlysyslog done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.209903000> service network start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.210079000> service earlyxdm startStarting service gdmunused
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.269932000> service earlyxdm doneLoading CPUFreq modulesdone
Starting HAL daemondone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:30.627846000> service haldaemon doneSetting up (localfs) network interfaces:
    lo        
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8   
              IP address: 127.0.0.2/8   
    lo       
done    eth0      device: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
    eth0      Starting DHCP4+DHCP6 client. 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:32.627832000> killproc: kill(1373,1)
. . . . . . .  
    eth0      IP address: 128.250.44.215/26
    eth0      DHCP6 continues in background
    eth0     
doneSetting up service (localfs) network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.193290000> service network done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.193496000> service syslog start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.201927000> killproc: kill(1373,15)
Re-Starting syslog services
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.264619000> startproc: execve (/sbin/rsyslogd)  /sbin/rsyslogd -c 5 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/rsyslogd ]
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.277207000> service syslog done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.277353000> service rpcbind start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.277497000> service auditd start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.277644000> service splash_early start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.277792000> service vboxdrv start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.286927000> service splash_early done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.290000000> startproc: execve (/sbin/auditd)  /sbin/auditd -s disable ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/auditd ]
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.295974000> startproc: execve (/sbin/rpcbind)  /sbin/rpcbind ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/rpcbind ]
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.308241000> service rpcbind doneStarting rpcbind done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.308405000> service nfs startStarting VirtualBox kernel modulefailed
  (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.322126000> service vboxdrv doneNot starting NFS client services - no NFS found in /etc/fstab:unused
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.363462000> service nfs done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.363609000> service sshd start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.363753000> service kbd start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.370140000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd)  /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ]
Starting SSH daemondone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.383718000> service sshd doneStarting auditd done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.393470000> service auditd doneLoading keymap assuming iso-8859-15 euro
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
doneLoading compose table latin1.adddone
Start Unicode mode
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.587468000> service kbd done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.587768000> service xdm startStarting service gdmunused
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.599283000> service xdm done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.599495000> service alsasound start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.615357000> service alsasound done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.615431000> service avahi-daemon startStarting Avahi daemon 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.626916000> service avahi-daemon donedone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.626997000> service avahi-dnsconfd startStarting Avahi DNS Configuration daemon 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.633619000> service avahi-dnsconfd donedone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.633729000> service bluez-coldplug start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.639799000> service bluez-coldplug donedone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.639870000> service cups startStarting cupsd
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.646977000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd)  /usr/sbin/cupsd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ]
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.750398000> service cups done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.750443000> service irq_balancer startStarting irqbalance 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.758801000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/irqbalance)  /usr/sbin/irqbalance ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/irqbalance ]
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.760986000> service irq_balancer done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.761122000> service java-binfmt-misc startStarting java.binfmt_misc done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.767379000> service java-binfmt-misc done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.767515000> service mcelog startStarting mcelog... 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.775245000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/mcelog)  /usr/sbin/mcelog --daemon --pidfile /var/run/mcelog.pid ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/mcelog ]
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.787613000> service mcelog done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.787750000> service network-remotefs start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.888143000> service splash start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.894375000> service splash doneSetting up (remotefs) network interfaces:
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.969384000> service network-remotefs doneSetting up service (remotefs) network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:48.969471000> service ntp startTime synchronized with ntp0.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.168469000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/ntpd)  /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -i /var/lib/ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ntpd ]
done
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.171100000> service ntp done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.171144000> service nscd start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.171299000> service postfix start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.177868000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd)  /usr/sbin/nscd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
Starting Name Service Cache Daemondone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.190082000> service nscd doneStarting mail service (Postfix)
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.413569000> service postfix donedone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.413700000> service cron start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.424650000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron)  /usr/sbin/cron ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/char/../tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ]
Starting CRON daemondone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.427092000> service cron done<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:49.427245000> service smartd startStarting smartd 
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:52.161049000> service smartd donedone
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:52.161237000> service stoppreload start<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:52.167199000> service stoppreload donedone
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Skipped services in runlevel 5: earlyxdm nfs xdm splash
<notice -- Feb 21 12:33:52.168323000> killproc: kill(1297,3)

Boot logging started on /dev/char/../tty1(/dev/console) at Mon Feb 21 12:38:33 2011

Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: 5, switching to runlevel: 6
<notice -- Feb 21 12:38:33.635123000> service cron start<notice -- Feb 21 12:38:33.635354000> service smartd start<notice -- Feb 21 12:38:33.635497000> service nscd 
.
lots of kill messages
.
.
Master Resource Control: runlevel 6 has been reached
<notice -- Feb 21 12:38:36.175157000> killproc: kill(4791,3)

Thanks to everyone so far. Are there any more suggestions?

The joy of linux!

#8

When you boot to the other linux or live CD, pls post output from


df -h 
### openSUSE home folder
ls -lh ~/

I wonder if you’ve run out of space on / (root) or the wrong uid:gid for .Xauthority

I agree with Carlos E. R. unless you over wrote a file or folder in openSUSE from Windows its not a problem, although system time discrepancies between openSUSE and Windows can cause issues.

#9

Tarapharazon,

/media/SuSE is the suse root file system mounted in Fedora

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc5              40G   11G   29G  28% /
tmpfs                 4.0G  432K  4.0G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb7             126G   94G   25G  80% /suse/home
/dev/sdc6              49G  3.4G   43G   8% /scientific
/dev/sde1             7.5G  2.9G  4.7G  38% /media/KINGSTON
/dev/sdb6              20G  9.1G  9.7G  49% /media/SuSE

So there is plenty of space.

It was read and write from windows and it changed the name of the disk as it appeared to windows and Fedora picks up the name change too as it mounts it as /media/SuSE. That does not appear to have any effect on mounting any of the file systems. I did not knowingly write or delete any files.

How do I check the uid:gid for .Xauthority ?

Peter

#10

On 2011-02-21 05:06, lateblight wrote:

> It was read and write from windows and it changed the name of the disk
> as it appeared to windows and Fedora picks up the name change too as it
> mounts it as /media/SuSE. That does not appear to have any effect on
> mounting any of the file systems. I did not knowingly write or delete
> any files.

A disk name change would set my systems as unbootable. If you are using
labels in grub or fstab you would have problems.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#11

On 2011-02-21 04:06, lateblight wrote:
>
> It isn’t fixed but is at least different. Thanks robin_listas.
>
> It can now find awk after I booted into Fedora mounted the suse root
> directory and issued this command
>
> chroot /media/SUSE rpm -U --force ./gawk-3.1.6-31.1.x86_64.rpm
>

Ok.

> I still can’t log into SUSE as the command line login won’t prompt for
> a password the same as before.

Try runlevel 3 instead of 5.
Try ssh-in from another computer.

> The new boot.msg from about where I think things may be going wrong is
> below:

I don’t see anything wrong :-?

> Code:
> --------------------
>

> Starting jexec services
> <notice – Feb 21 12:33:30.108550000> service jexec doneStarting syslog servicesdone

You should not have jexec, I think.
ations AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
> eth0 Starting DHCP4+DHCP6 client.
> <notice – Feb 21 12:33:32.627832000> killproc: kill(1373,1)

Something is killed here. Probably irrelevant.

> <notice – Feb 21 12:33:48.308405000> service nfs startStarting VirtualBox kernel modulefailed
> (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)

This should not matter, I think. Unless your system is a guest :-?

> Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
> Skipped services in runlevel 5: earlyxdm nfs xdm splash
> <notice – Feb 21 12:33:52.168323000> killproc: kill(1297,3)
>
> Boot logging started on /dev/char/…/tty1(/dev/console) at Mon Feb 21 12:38:33 2011
>
> Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: 5, switching to runlevel: 6
> <notice – Feb 21 12:38:33.635123000> service cron start<notice – Feb 21 12:38:33.635354000> service smartd start<notice – Feb 21 12:38:33.635497000> service nscd
> .
> lots of kill messages

This I don’t understand, it is halting.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#12

Not sure why read write would change the name of the disk, but it could affect the userid:groupid and permissions on the files. Plenty of room.

Sorry I should have requested this before, can you post output from


### where /suse/home is your /home on suse? 
ls -lh   /suse/home  
### where /etc/fstab is suse
cat /etc/fstab

Just to make sure its not a permission issue.

.Xauthority and .ICEauthority are hidden files, and when there userid:groupid or permissions are changed can block access to your system.
ls -l will show the userid:groupid or uid:gid usually username : users.

Carlos E. R. suggests you may need to change mapping of your drives in /etc/fstab, so, lets take a look at how they are mounted.

#13

One of the first things I tried before posting was the disk names in fstab. The original is below:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part5 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part7 /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
#/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3160827AS_3MT07J4G-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0621,gid=5       0 0
#/dev/sdc8	/fedora/home		ext4	rw,users,noauto	0 0
#/dev/sdc5	/fedora/boot		ext4	rw,users,noauto	0 0
/dev/sdc5	/fedora/root		ext4	rw,users,noauto,users		0 0
/dev/sdc6	/scientific		ext3	rw,users,noauto,users		0 0
/dev/sde8	/trouble/home		ufs	ro,ufstype=sun,noauto		0 0
/dev/sde1	/trouble/root		ufs	ro,ufstype=sun,noauto		0 0
/dev/sdd1	/windows/xp_pro_x64	ntfs-3g	users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8	0 0
/dev/sda1       /home/petera/data	ntfs-3g uid=1003,gid=100,umask=0022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8	0 0
/dev/sdc4	none			swap	sw,pri=8			0 0
/dev/sdb2	/freebsd/old		ufs	rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto,users	0 0
/dev/sdb8	/freebsd/old/sdb8	ufs	rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto,users	0 0	#root
/dev/sdb9	 none			swap	sw,pri=8			0 0
/dev/sdb10	/freebsd/old/sdb10	ufs     rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto,users  	0 0
/dev/sdb11	/freebsd/old/sdb11      ufs     rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto,users  	0 0
/dev/sdb12	/freebsd/old/sdb12      ufs     rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto  	0 0	#/usr incl home directories
/dev/sdc2	/freebsd/8		ufs     rw,ufstype=ufs2,noauto,users    0 0	#pcbsd root

I then tried changing the first three lines to :

/dev/sdb5	swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb6	/                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sdb7	/home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2

which had no effect. There is still no difference now the awk problem is fixed.

Grub seems to work without problems as I suspect I wouldn’t be able to boot at all if it didn’t

Just for completeness, the start of menu.lst is

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Feb  9 15:38:01 EST 2011
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

default 2
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.7 (default)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 splash=silent nomodeset
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.7-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.7 (default)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=o
ff x11failsafe nomodeset
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.7-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.7
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 splash=silent nomodeset
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.7 (desktop)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=o
ff x11failsafe nomodeset
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop

I have checked the .Xauthority and .ICEauthority files

-rw-------. 1 1003 users 70K 2011-02-09 15:32 .ICEauthority
-rw-------. 1 1003 users 0 2010-07-19 16:23 .Xauthority

Any problems with them should not affect a login prompt from working properly. There is no graphical login but a command line login doesn’t prompt for a password and simply says login failed,

I think I had disabled all ssh logins (root certainly). I don’t have access to another linux box here but will try when I get home tonight.

#14

On 2011-02-22 07:06, lateblight wrote:
>
> One of the first things I tried before posting was the disk names in
> fstab. The original is below:

> I then tried changing the first three lines to :

The three lines were correct; I said the problems were “labels”, and you
anr not using labels, but id.

> Grub seems to work without problems as I suspect I wouldn’t be able to
> boot at all if it didn’t
>
> Just for completeness, the start of menu.lst is
>
> Code:
> --------------------

> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCARW5197291-part6 splash=silent nomodeset

Use “splash=verbose”.

> I have checked the .Xauthority and .ICEauthority files
>
> -rw-------. 1 1003 users 70K 2011-02-09 15:32 .ICEauthority
> -rw-------. 1 1003 users 0 2010-07-19 16:23 .Xauthority

There is a problem there, it is using the UID number instead of name, which
means that user 1003 does not exist in /etc/passwd. You should check that
file, and all your home files: they must belong to you.

> Any problems with them should not affect a login prompt from working
> properly. There is no graphical login but a command line login doesn’t
> prompt for a password and simply says login failed,

I don’t know if any of what I just said will make it work, we are grasping
at straws here :frowning:

I have a vague recollection of a similar problem months ago, but I can’t
remember what it was nor where I saw it. Pam perhaps… :-?

> I think I had disabled all ssh logins (root certainly). I don’t have
> access to another linux box here but will try when I get home tonight.

It’s a useful thing to have…

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#15

My thoughts are Aptosid on the USB might be the original culprit. Not sure what you might have tried to do with Aptosid or if your partitions were mounted r/o vs r/w for Aptosid. If Aptosid is the culprit, have you tried login with the default password for Aptosid?

Posting .Xauthority and .ICEauthority without listing other files is a guess, out of context.

The “awk” error messages out of the ifup means the path isn’t set to /bin/awk or /usr/bin/awk. Should I assume you’ve run fsck on / (root) and /home? Verified openSUSE packages?

zypper ve

And afterwards try to boot normally to openSUSE?

If you try any of the above could you post output from


dmesg | tail -n 30 
###
tail -n 30  /var/log/messages

Worst case you can reinstall or upgrade openSUSE.

#16

I really appreciate the time you have thought about the problem and all of your suggestions but I think I have reached the point of cutting my losses and reinstalling.

I still can’t log in either remotely using ssh (I get the message that there is no authentication protocol available), or from the console. In both cases I still don’t get a chance to enter a password. Editing inittab to boot to run level 3 didn’t change the login problem.

Booting from a suse rescue disk then chmod and running “zypper ve” didn’t show up any problems. More radically I tried upgrading the distribution using zypper, it seemed to work but didn’t fix the problem.

Thank-you everyone for your help. I have learned a lot.

Cheers,

Peter

#17

2 last things then, I had an issue once when for some reason unknown my keys would double up. I enter k and the keyboard entered kk or kkk. IIRC, I typed something where I got to see the keypress and managed to fix the problem. The other is you probably need to reinstall rather than upgrade.