Can't access RH9 system

[Pete Nesbitt]

On July 1, 2004 09:21 am, James Pifer wrote:
> I have a Redhat 9 system that I can't access. The system was starting to
> act very sluggish and I couldn't umount a smb share. So I decided just
> to give it a reboot. Shutdown seemed normal but when it came back up it
> forced a disk check saying the disk was not clean.
>
> Then it wanted me to run fsck to fix errors, which I did. Now the system
> comes up but the only access I have is through a smb share. Just to
> reboot it I had to modify crontab and add the shutdown command.
>
> -I can't login at the console, but I don't get any errors. Won't even
> prompt me for password.
> -ssh fails to load: sshd: RSA1 key generation failed
> -webmin starts but is not accessible. Get a perl execution failed error.
> -vncserver: vncserver start failed
> -and I also see this in messages:
> 	su: PAM _pam_init_handlers: could not open /etc/pam.conf
> 	su: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize handlers
> 	su: PAM pam_end: NULL pam handle passed
> 	su: su: incorrect password
>
> Any suggestions where to start resolving these issues?
>
> Thanks,
> James


Hi,
If there is a problem with the disk (that fsck can correct), you need to run 
fsck from a boot disk or from the install CD. In order for fsck to reliably 
repair a fs problem, the file system cannot be mounted.

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Pete Nesbitt, rhce