Thanks, solved it meanwhile. Since any shell was disabled (they all seem to read /etc/profile), I think that only the rescue-CD could have solved it (otherwise I got to the point where I could enter the user-name, just command-line mode, but then on starting the shell it hang). Just for general information (now that I'm back to live :-)). Oliver On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:35:57PM -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Oliver Kullmann said the following on 09/21/2010 01:00 PM:
To add: no form of (purely) konsole login seems available: After "Have a lot of fun..." it just hangs.
Have you tried logging in as root instead?
Oh wait, do you mean this *is* root account you've been talking about? If that's the case, the Oliver, you have some very fundamental problems.
Hmm. Try "failsafe" boot.
When Grub comes up, you should have an option to get the Grub command line. You can add boot options on that line. Any editing done that way is not permanent: it's only for that session, so you can't screw anything up. Use the cursor to select the 'failsafe' boot, then edit the command line and add the word "single" to the end of that line to boot in single user mode or runlevel 1. Once you are in, you should be able to use the command 'init 3' to change into runlevel 3.
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