greetings,
a previous install and updated centos 6.4 from dvd 1 x86_64 got trashed. not sure of cause. no big deal. install practice never hurts. :-)
now, installation is:
CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso installed as; CentOS (2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64) - root (hd1,2)
SL-63-i386-2012-08-24-LiveCD.iso installed and updated as; Scientific Linux (2.6.32-431.1.2.el6.i686) - root (hd1,5)
/dev/sdb5 /home
after initial install of c6.4, second install phase went well. rebooted and checked boot up 3 times, all with successful logins.
needed some kde configuration information from sl63, rebooted, selected sl63, boot ok. when tried to login to kde, user 'geo' password refused and user 'root' password refused.
booted sl-62-i386 install dvd in rescue mode;
chroot /mnt/sysimage passwd root passwd geo
exit exit reboot
login to sl63 as 'geo' and 'root' ok.
ran email, ran some web work.
rebooted to centos, 'geo' and 'root' passwords refused, tried twice, booted centos dvd-1 in rescue mode, made same entries as with sl62.
rebooted to c64, login to c64 as 'geo' and 'root' ok.
rebooted to sl62, tried to login as 'geo' and 'root', nfw, refused.
it is now a continuous cycle of repeating of above.
any and all help, ideas, suggestions, will be greatly appreciated.
tia.
well, yes. but why?
On 02/12/2014 03:46 AM, g wrote:
greetings,
a previous install and updated centos 6.4 from dvd 1 x86_64 got trashed. not sure of cause. no big deal. install practice never hurts. :-)
now, installation is:
CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso installed as; CentOS (2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64) - root (hd1,2)
SL-63-i386-2012-08-24-LiveCD.iso installed and updated as; Scientific Linux (2.6.32-431.1.2.el6.i686) - root (hd1,5)
/dev/sdb5 /home
after initial install of c6.4, second install phase went well. rebooted and checked boot up 3 times, all with successful logins.
needed some kde configuration information from sl63, rebooted, selected sl63, boot ok. when tried to login to kde, user 'geo' password refused and user 'root' password refused.
booted sl-62-i386 install dvd in rescue mode;
chroot /mnt/sysimage passwd root passwd geo exit exit rebootlogin to sl63 as 'geo' and 'root' ok.
ran email, ran some web work.
rebooted to centos, 'geo' and 'root' passwords refused, tried twice, booted centos dvd-1 in rescue mode, made same entries as with sl62.
rebooted to c64, login to c64 as 'geo' and 'root' ok.
rebooted to sl62, tried to login as 'geo' and 'root', nfw, refused.
it is now a continuous cycle of repeating of above.
any and all help, ideas, suggestions, will be greatly appreciated.
tia.
after running searches with near exact, then various wordings of problem against sites; centos.org, fnal.gov, and, fedoraproject.org and with no domain named, nothing hit that was close.
after thinking about what was happening and how the 2 systems where set up, the only things that was common between them was both used same /home partition. both systems had the other system mounted in /hdd/sd/xx.
'SWAG' time.
i could think of nothing to try other than to comment out the mounting of the other system in the 2 fstab files.
booted centos install dvd to rescue mode, ran the 'game' again.
booted up sl63, logins ok.
booted up c64, logins ok.
'DANK' time.
anyone care to make a suggestion as to why unmounting other system cured problem?
with previous installs of different distributions and with mounting non booted systems to mounted system, i have not had problem.
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g