login fails

[Patrick Dupre]

On 2012-07-27 19:45, Bill Shirley wrote:
> 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.
>

The other problem is that when I try to update the distribution,
it is not recognize as a fedora distribution! I can boot it but not
login!

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  Patrick DUPRÉ                |   |  email: pdupre at kegtux.org
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