Andy Green wrote: > Marian POPESCU wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am struggling here with the most weird thing to date (for me). >> These are the facts: >> I cannot log into my FC5 box. >> While booting I get lots of error messages: "unknown user: root"; > > Sounds like the selinux label for /etc/passwd can be wrong. Try booting > with selinux=0 on the kernel commandline and see if everything is the > same. > > -Andy Hello Andy, Thanks for replying! It's really weird - SELinux was disabled at install time. The whole story started when I updated my server to the latest and greatest :-( - kernel_2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 - dbus-0.61-3.fc5.1 and family After restarting I could login as my ordinary user, but when I tried to launch yumex - and the dialog for root password showed up - it was impossible - it already started to say "unknown user : root". I rebooted, this time I had errors as "unknown user" all the way up to the login console, where it was impossible to login ... Reboot again, start the rescue console from the CD, chroot on the system and nothing; whoami says "cannot find name for user ID 0"; mc will crash as soon as I try to modify any text file. I know that the best thing is to reinstall the system, but : 1. I am worried about some security problem - maybe some new kind of worm - which means the system still contains it 2. Complex and lengthy setup 3. Not much time available, since it was a dev server Is still there hope for me? Marian
