login fails

Patrick Dupre pdupre at kegtux.org
Tue Jul 24 08:18:03 UTC 2012


On 2012-07-24 02:03, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> Can you still log into the normal tty:s? Try ctrl-alt-f6 for example.

Same thing.

> Not sure exactly what is broken here...but running "ls -l /usr/bin |
> grep login"  and see what it says. Possibly some permissions were not
> set properly because of the failed update.
> Best,
>
> Christopher Svanefalk
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Dupre <pdupre at kegtux.org
> [6]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to update a fedora 16 to 17. Unfortunately, the update
>> failed
>> very soon after the starting.
>> Then, no way to try again to update, the distribution was not
>> recognized.
>> Anyway, I was able to boot the distribution, but at the login,
>> after I
>> give a login name I get:
>> tty1: cant exec /bin/login permission denied
>>
>> What are your recommendations?
>>
>> Thank.
>>
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