Sam Beam wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab
>> and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course). That
>> will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out
>> why the md1 device is getting assembled but the /dev/md1 node isn't
>> created for it.
>
> Thanks Les, that was very helpful (and I should have thought of it...). But
> then it gets weird again:
>
> I commented out the /dev/md1 line and the system came all the way up to the
> login prompt. Great! I thought. Enter the root password and...
>
> kingkong login: root
> Password: xxxxxx
> Last login: Tue Dec 3 13:58:11 2002
> /bin/bash: Permission denied
>
> doh! well of course I have done nothing special to the permissions there or
> anywhere else. I can see all the console boot messages and they all look
> normal.
>
> Booted into single user mode, and that works. /bin/bash has normal perms and
> all seems well. What's more, I was able to mount /dev/md1 on /home and it
> didn't complain. Then I un-commented the line in fstab, rebooted and it
> worked all the way up to the login prompt, it now uses all 3 md devices
> happily. But then, "Permission denied" is all I get. Nice system but it makes
> it hard to maintain when even root can't log in.
>
> Could there be some disk error? I have never had so much bizarre behavior from
> one system. Ready to chuck it out the window.
>
> Is there anything else I can try to see what's up?
Is SELinux enabled? There's some black magic command to make it rebuild
its labels when it is not happy.
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