login fails

[Bill Shirley]

On 7/26/2012 6:12 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> On 2012-07-24 02:03, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>> Can you still log into the normal tty:s? Try ctrl-alt-f6 for example.
>
>
> No, I can just not login on the machine
> When I boot from another installation and mount the volume, the
> permission seems right.
>
>> 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.
>
> I cannot login, so, I cannot make a ls command.
> I use to log in text mode.
>
>> 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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>

If it's a selinux problem, boot the distribution, mount the partition, 
and edit /etc/selinux/config.  Change to
SELINUX=permissive

then reboot.  Hopefully that will get you logged in so you can find the 
problem.  I suggest a re-label.

Bill