unknown user: root

[Andy Green]

Marian POPESCU wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am struggling here with the most weird thing to date (for me).
> These are the facts:
> I cannot log into my FC5 box.
> While booting I get lots of error messages: "unknown user: root";

Sounds like the selinux label for /etc/passwd can be wrong.  Try booting 
with selinux=0 on the kernel commandline and see if everything is the same.

-Andy
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