Re: techniques to fix damaged systems

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Todd Denniston wrote:
Might have been useful to see the actual error message(s).

[root@adama ~]# su - mjc
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/mjc: Permission denied
su: /bin/bash: Permission denied

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.


does /etc/nologin exist?

No.


try looking at `man rpm`
rpm -verify  -a

...

At least this might reduce the reinstall you do.

Thanks! That's a useful trick to know.



- Mike

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