Can't login

dbc001 · 02-28-2006, 06:57 PM

Hi everyone, I've got a bit of an emergency:
I'm running Slackware 10 and apache seems to have died. i'm not running x windows or any GUI stuff. when i ssh in i get this message:

Code:

Last login: Sun Feb 26 22:18:32 2006 from 192.168.0.2
Linux 2.4.31.

I was logged in as a regular user on the physical machine, so i tried to do "apachectl restart" and got a Segmentation Fault. then tried "su -" and got another segmentation fault. at some point i seem to have gotten logged off.

now if i try to login on the physical machine it gives a similar message, then says "You have new mail." and then i go right back to the login prompt.

I tried to use Left ALT + SysRq + R to get into raw mode but I'm not having any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks in advance!

dbc

MS3FGX · 03-01-2006, 12:03 AM

Hm, the same thing happened to me, but I don't think it's the same problem you are having.

In my situation, I was upgrading my AMD K6 laptop, and foolishly installed a package for Bash from linuxpackages.net that was compiled for i686, something my K6 cannot handle.

So the system ran fine, but whenever I tried to login, bash would seg fault and I would go right back to agetty.

kadhiravan.r · 03-01-2006, 02:55 AM

Check your .bash_profile and check the /inittab file to get the default runlevel.
If it is possible to login thriugh emegency mode , see log messages.

kadhir.R

azi · 03-01-2006, 09:48 AM

HI, same thing happened here.. The fastes way to get things fixed is to reinstall the binary packages...

kadhiravan.r · 03-01-2006, 10:34 PM

When U get Seg fault while running some command it is bec'z of the binary is corrpted. U can conform by using the Command--

#type commandname

This will give u the path of the command from where it is excecuted.

Copy that command from sosme other Pc and put it in the same path in the local PC.

Thsi will solve the problem.

kadhir

Namaseit · 03-01-2006, 10:51 PM

I've also seen this happen with a dying HDD. Not saying that *is* the cause but just a heads up.

Randux · 03-02-2006, 04:18 AM

I also got segment faults with Mozilla recently after installing another distro to another partition. It seems strange that so many people are reporting this. I wonder if there is an issue with Reiserfs???

I couldn't get xfce to work at all and I had to reinstall all of X. Now everything is working, but for how long?

How many of you guys who had the segment fault are running Reiserfs?

Namaseit · 03-02-2006, 08:38 AM

Well all I've used in the last like 3 years is reiserfs so yeah. But I don't really think that has anything to do with it. ReiserFS has been dead stable for a long time now.

Would continue but I'm off to vegas.

Artanicus · 05-17-2006, 02:42 PM

If evverything on your slackware system starts to segfault, your best bet is that youve got thw wrong version of the package glibc. So, doing a reinstall of glibc from a slackpack should fix that.. If installpkg is segfaulting too, you'll have to use the install CD, or install the package manually. (just tar xzvf it in the root directory)