[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: None

[linux]

Tom McDonald writes: 

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:34:11 -0500 (CDT)
> Ed Coates <edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org> wrote: 
> 
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>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, linux wrote: 
>> 
>> > Ed Coates writes:
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>> > >
>> > >
>> > Good tip! Found several errors shown in tty10-12:
>> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device found
>> > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device found
>> > SIOCSIFBRDADDR:  No such device found 
>> 
>> Those errors are associated with trying to setup a network card, and the
>> device not being found. 
>> 
>> > /etc/rc.d/rc.boot: hdpram: command not found 
>> 
>> hdparm is used to set different parameters for your harddrives 
>> 
>> > Starting at deamon: /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S40atd: echo_success: command not found 
>> 
>> atd is a daemon similar to cron, but you set a job to run once and only
>> once, instead of re-ocurring 
>> 
>> > Starting at deamon: /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S41atd: echo_success: command not
>> > /etc/rc.d/rcs.d/S98local: /sbin/ipchains: no such file or directory 
>> 
>> ipchains is for your firewall 
>> 
>> Sounds like either one of a couple of things.  Watch it closely when you
>> boot it to see if it sees all of your harddrives that it should.  Possibly
>> not seeing/mounting a harddrive, or the other possibility that you may
>> have been hacked.  I might take the machine off the network if it's
>> connected to the internet just in case until you can resolve these
>> problems. 
>> 
>> Did you try to boot into single user mode at the boot prompt?  Just
>> manually type in     linux single  should do it.  Then you can check out
>> the hardware. 
>> 
>> Ed 
>> 
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> I've had similar problems with GDM/KDM/XDM not getting the authorization
> right so any user that trys to login is not allowed.  I would try to boot
> to runlevel 3 (linux 3 at lilo boot prompt) then login as a user and run
> startx.   
> 
> If you can login and execute X with the startx script, then you will have 
> to start tracking down why GDM/KDM/XDM isn't setting up auth correctly. 
> 
> If you can't login on runlevel 3 then you may have a problem with pam or
> passwords etc.  In any event /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth
> may give a clue.

Booted to runlevel 3 and cannot log in. After giving valid user name or root 
and it just returns another login prompt. 

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> Tom McDonald <tom at compuclaim.com>
> Compuclaim Inc. 
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