KDM problems after power failure

merchtemeagle · 02-16-2006, 05:22 PM

After a power failure, I restarted my computer and noticed I could not choose my regular user account in the KDM login screen. When I entered it manually and tried to login, I got: "Your shell is not in /etc/shells".

The shell of my account was left blank, which defaults to /bin/sh. This is indeed not in /etc/shells, so I changed my shell to /bin/bash and everything is ok again.

My question is: what could have caused this, and why did the default stopped working?

320mb · 02-16-2006, 10:56 PM

on most systems, /bin/sh is usually a symlink to ----> /bin/bash
recreate the symlink and put /bin/sh back in /etc/shells file

merchtemeagle · 02-17-2006, 07:30 AM

The symlink is still there:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-02-09 21:10 /bin/sh -> bash*

It is impossible that a power failure took "/bin/sh" out of the "/etc/shells" file, is it not?

merchtemeagle · 03-20-2006, 10:19 AM

About the "Your shell is not in /etc/shells" error: I installed Slackware somewhere else, and even on a fresh install, a newly created user (with no shell specified in /etc/passwd), gets this error. Could it be a bug?