Cannot login after yum update

[Sam Varshavchik]

Stephen Pusey writes:

> I am not sure if this is the right forum - but would appreciate help.  I 
> did a yum update on November 1st using a development  Fedora 8.  After 
> this I rebooted the machine (a leased server) and could not ssh as root.  
> I could access the site via webmin and by "re-enabling" the users I could 
> then start ssh and other services.  I then rebooted and found that I could 
> not login with either ssh or with webmin.  I currently have the server 
> mounted through a gentoo CD.  However, I am stumped.  I think the issue 
> may be with pamd - but everything looks fine.  I also suspect xinetd.  
> Looking at the messages logs I see a EXT-fs check was forced on the disk 
> on a reboot.

That indicates that the disk was corrupted. You're boned.

There's no real way to determine what ended up being broken, without doing a 
more complete, detailed analysis. There could be any number of hundreds of 
differents reasons why your system is screwed up.

The easiest thing to do is to just reinstall.

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