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polsen
n00b
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 Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject: cdlogin???? |
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What is the CDLOGIN?
I am booting from the live cd and it asks for a login password, but none of my usernames work. What causes this? It is sporadic. |
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cyrillic
Watchman
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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The password is : ******** 
But seriously, you need to set the password using the "passwd" command if you want to login on another terminal (or remotely) |
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polsen
n00b
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | you need to set the password using the "passwd" command if you want to login on another terminal |
That is the problem. I can't reliably get a command prompt. I have had the system up and running in the past but since I made some changes to the kernel I have not been able to run the system from the cd nor a regular boot.
When I put in the CD I never get a chance to change the passwd. It is very weird I can reboot it a few times and eventually I get a normal command prompt. There is no aparent reason why it changes. If I use the passwd command ad them reboot It may or may not ask for the cdlogin.
I am still unable to boot without the CD. I have followed suggestions in the forum https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=77391 and re-re-compiled the kernel but on boot I still get an error about modules.dep being older than /lib/???/module.dev. (I can't recall the actual error as I am at work now). From what I can tell it can't find certain (or any) modules since the recompile.
This whole situation worries me as I have a server up and running on gentoo. If I am forced to recompile the kernel for some reason I am scared I may have this same problem. I can't have an important system disabled since my work depends on it. I need concrete solution for this problem.
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