[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

[Cliff Pratt]

Roland Hill wrote:
> On Thu, February 14, 2008 4:21 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> 
>>> The recovery mode should supposedly boot you into single user
>>> mode. If it's still coming up with an authentication problem
>>> (which it should because it's not supposed to authenticate at all
>>> in single user mode) you could try changing the linux line in
>>> grub (press esc during boot, hit 'e' and then find the line that
>>> starts with linux and hit e again) and adding "init=/sbin/init"
>>> to the end. If this doesn't work, you'll probably have to go down
>>> the livecd route.
>> I think you may mean "init=/bin/bash" ???
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Unfortunately:
> 
> - single mode/recovery mode does not let me into the system
> 
More detail would be helpful. What error did you get?
> 
> - adding init=/sbin/init doesn't either
> 
It already starts init.
> 
> - adding init=/bin/bash comes up with a 'does not exits error', then 
> proceeds to a Busybox console.
> 
What system is it? I've forgotten! It is surprising that /bin/bash does
not exist. Busybox??
> 
> Looks like I will have to try a Live CD.......
> 
Well, if you must cheat.....

Cheers,

Cliff