Still new to Slack, and was attempting to chage to zshell last night as a friend of mine said I ought to try it out.
Not exactly sure the command I put in, soemthing along the lines of But it may have been slightly different.

Anyways, now, after a shutdown, I can't login anymore. The message I get is:

Then it gives me the login line again.

Running Slack 12, fresh install, and I was just in the process of setting up the system the wy I want it, so don't think I'm generally running in root :P

I haven't added any users yet as I'm still configuring everything or I'd have tried logging in to that user.

So basically, can I fix this? Or am I stuck reinstalling? I haven't done a ton of work on the system so a reinstll wouldn't kill me, but would still like to know how to fix this so that I can do it the next time I screw up. ^_^

Thanks

You shouldn't have to reinstall. But you may have to download a live-cd of some kind. I prefer Slax Frodo for jobs like this, BTW. Once you have booted the live-cd, be sure your root partition is mounted somewhere, then edit your root line in /etc/passwd to match the following:
Be sure that you just edit the name of the shell. Doing any more could cause more problems.
Regards,
Bill

Glorious, thanks. Already had a copy of slax on a flash drive, completely forgot about it.

Slax is great

Maybe you should have used this instead:
?

First, are you sure you have zsh installed on the system? (I ask because on one of my systems I just assumed it was there, switched to zsh, and felt really dumb when I finally figured out why my login was failing.) Simply installing that package might solve your problem.

Second, I know you already have a copy of Slax, but for future reference, the Slackware install CD will allow you either to boot fully from the CDROM, so you can mount and modify your partitions independently, or boot your normal system using a kernel from the CD. (Useful if you bollix your kernel or lilo setup).

Well, I got it fixed and then went searching and it turns out zsh isn't there after all. :P

I think I'm going to wait for a little while before trying anything more alien anyways. I'm coming from Ubuntu with Gnome, so I'm getting used to a whole new system here and it's taking all my efforts to just figure out how to compile and install new packages.

And here I thought Ubuntu would be a good way to learn linux... /sigh

Say, since this thread is still going, and I don't want to clutter up the forum with my newbishness any more than necessary....

Just downloaded slapt-get pkg and am trying to install it. I'm following the beginers guide here

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...re-readme.html

and have followed the directions there as best I could. downloaded and unpacked the tar to /usr/local/src but when I go to run ./configure I get an error saying:

What am I missing here? I'm sure as usual it's something painfully simple and/or obvious.;

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

If you downloaded the slapt-get package then compilation is unnecessary. Just change to the directory into which you downloaded the package and run as root
(If the numbers are a little different, use the appropriate values.)

So basically you can just run installpks if it's a tgz file and you need to compile it if it's a .tar.zg , tar.bz2 or zip file?

Are you using Slack 12? If so, zsh comes with it by default. (Probably with most earlier versions too)

I was able to reproduce your error using

and was successful using:

Ahh, I see where I went wrong there.

Once I've got my bearings I'll give it a try, for now I'm fairly used to the way bash works so I'll stick with that till I run out of other things to play with.