techniques to fix damaged systems

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Craig White wrote:
>> 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.
> ----
> is it possible that /home is mounted as read-only or not mounted at all?

No, /home is not a separate mount - it is under /. It is a simple system.


> You might first want to run e2fsck on all the file systems which I think
> you can invoke by issuing the following command (as root)...
> 
> shutdown now -Fr

Good idea! Thanks!


- Mike