Can't access RH9 system

[Crucificator]

I'd even add that if the filesystem was mounted at the time fsck ran the 
partition could have gotten really messed up. Try boot in single mode 
and repair what you can. But I would strongly suggest an clean reinstall.

Pete Nesbitt wrote:

>On July 1, 2004 09:21 am, James Pifer wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>-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
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>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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