No login prompt! HELP!

[Stephen Goggin]

But it was working before with the EXACT same symptoms... Commenting a
line from a file in /etc/pam.d/ fixed it...



Stephen Goggin
 
Test Engineer
NetEffect, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Yefimov [mailto:dan at ns15.lightwave.net.ru] 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:27 AM
To: Stephen Goggin
Cc: Pluggable Authentication Modules
Subject: Re: No login prompt! HELP!

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Stephen Goggin wrote:

> I've got a PXE server set up, the clients boot, and all seems to be
OK.
> 
> I get to the point of "Running /sbin/init", and it dies.
> 
> I change the inittab to run in runlevel 1, and I get a bash prompt. If
I
> try to change the root password with passwd, I either get
> "Authentication token manipulation error" or "Authentication token
lock
> busy".
> 
> This is booting from NFS so almost everything is read-only.
> 
> I've had this fixed once before, but I had to change a few things and
> make a new image on the server, and lost the changes I made. Like a
> dummy I didn't back it up, nor bookmark the page that had the fix.
> 
> I remember commenting out a file in the /etc/pam.d/ directory, and
> everything worked fine afterward...
> 
This problem has nothing to do with PAM at all. /etc , /tmp and /var
need to be 
mounted read-write in order for the entire system to operate correctly.
I'd 
suggest you creating tar.gz archives of /etc and /var, mounting tmpfs
over /etc 
and /var, and unpacking the archives created at first step into mounted
tmpfs 
systems.
-- 

    Sincerely Your, Dan.