Help I really hosed my Linux box! edit: FIXED!

[mcveigh]

I am testing the redhat 7.3 beta. I upgraded the kernel today then reinstally the nvidia patches. I had a system crash while testing a bug I found in the GIMP.

Now when I try to login as a user from the command line (run level 3 is the default) it seems to accept my password then comes right back to a login prompt.
ONLY ROOT can login (I am typing this as root)

here is some info

[root@localhost root]# tail /var/log/messages
Apr 30 15:47:39 localhost login(pam_unix)[1421]: session opened for user seth by LOGIN(uid=0)
Apr 30 15:47:43 localhost login(pam_unix)[1878]: session opened for user seth by LOGIN(uid=0)
Apr 30 15:48:09 localhost login(pam_unix)[1879]: session opened for user toby by LOGIN(uid=0)


user toby I just added, thinking there was something wrong with my directory or pwemissions. still no luck.

I am wondering why it shows all users as uid=0 seth (me) should be 500.

Any Ideas?

 

[Armitage]

I'm just guessing here, but try taking a look at the partition where your user home directories are. Is it mounted? Try to fsck it. Do the boot messages say anything about this partition?

 

[mcveigh]

well I fixed it, don't ask me how.

I did a fsck.ext3 -fc /dev/hda2

it reported no errors, so I did a fsck.ext3 -fp /dev/hda2 just to be sure, I couldn't kill my locked up session on tty1 so I rebooted...

and here I am logged in as me 😀


thanks! ergeorge