[ale] RHEL 5 will not allow login from Console

[Michael Trausch]

Uh, I am no RH user, but that doesn't sound like any stock login I am aware
of... red spinning lights and klaxons should be going off in your head...
On Sep 1, 2011 3:35 PM, "John Temple" <cjtemple at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a RHEL 5 VM system that will not allow us to login from the
console.
> We have tried to use both a valid user and root, for both of them after
> entering the username "Invalid Username" (or something like that) flashes
> and then we are returned to the login prompt. We have also tried booting
> into single user mode by editing the grub command line. No dice there
> either. Any suggestions on how to get the system back up?
>
> A couple of things that we have noticed:
> 1. When the VM boots the system displays a couple of failures most
noteably
> iptables and xinetd.
> 2. A few weeks ago a co-worker said that he had trouble with the system
> saying that it was in read only mode.
>
> --
> John Temple
> cjtemple at gmail.com
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