On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Larry Linder wrote: > Hi: > > I stubled into the old trap again when I forgot to comment out all disk > in "fstab" rebooted the system and I get dumped to a single user and it > tells you to enter your passwd and it gives you an error message. I know that some of these questions were asked before but I will ask again. Do you have the SL_password_for_singleuser rpm installed. If you do remove it and it will not ask for any password to go into single user. > You have no privilege to do anything. > Susi works correctly - what is wrong with SL or RedHad. > I tried SL 5.5 CD install disk and guess what. I changed a few item but it > would never allow you to do anything. I suggest that you purchase a RedHat subscription and after you have reproduced this problem on RedHat submit a detailed bug report to RedHat. > > I had to revert to do a new system install, set up disk labels, not format > anything but new disk I was changing our, enter root, and network stuff, > reboot before you change you OS applications. It cleans up the install > stuff on reboot and you then have redo the "fstab". > > The trap is that when I labeled new disk to same as old disk, removed old > disk, set address for new disk, rsync to load new disk, install new disk. It > all looked good except for label on disk was wrong. > > A simple easy process in Susi and other RH distributions but not in SL. > It has to be the kids fooling around with "fedora". Because this had worked > correctly for 20 years in the Unix world but is lately broken in SL or RH. > > We love SL and it runs everything we need but with this problem it makes the > maintenance of the system hard for such a simple task - if only SL was fixed. > > Some of our simulations are pretty fantastic at analyzing data. > The "Numerical Recipes in C" and the FFT stuff work well. > The applications from Dag were a real help. Not to mention setting up "R" and > using it to mine data. > > The SL team and members are supper and give a lot of no BS advice that is > always on the mark. There are a few things that just need to be fixed, they > are minor but costly in time. > > As several system grow the minor stuff becomes more and more important. > > Regards > Larry Linder >