From: dwyer@cs.fsu.edu (Frank Dwyer) Subject: Re: `no utmp entry'? linux gone to heaven Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1993 01:57:21 GMT
Hans Granqvist (hansg@risken.vd.volvo.se) wrote:
: All of a sudden, when I tried to boot my machine the other day,
: at typing in a username, linux responded with:
:
: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from
: the lowest level "sh"
:
: and then returns to the username prompt.
:
: Neither booting from the floppy made at a previous rebuild of
: kernel, nor booting from different kernels make any difference. It's
: clearly the case of a corrupt file system.
:
: Anybody got a clue what to do, and, if so, how to prevent this from
: happening again?
: --
: Hans Granqvist, Volvo Data Corp., Gothenburg, Sweden --- my opinions only
: ``Yu Dring Yu Draiv Yu Dai'' - Papua New Guinea campaign on Rot Seifiti
Although there are several problems which can cause this message to appear,
ours was quite simple... The root partition had been filled by a crazy
syslogd that had written 2.5M of warnings. Check and make sure you have
free space in /.