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Cannot login

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:58 pm
by thomasps
I'm having problems with my Amahi machine which has frozen.
When I went to login this morning I was not prompted for user/password, instead it was frozen to the Fedora login background. The last thing I was doing was transcoding a video using handbrake.

I did a hard restart, this time I was given the login prompt. Upon entering my credentials I was given this message:
"There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/libexec/gcong-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)."
I clicked ok but nothing happened.

I did a second hard restart. I pressed esc to see the messages while starting up. I long sequence of these type or errors appeared:
[number here] CIFS VFS No response for CMD [number here] mid [number]

I tried numerous restarts, at one point I caught this other error message:
touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/local' No space left on device.

What works: DHCP appears to be working. Dashboard does not work. Cannot remote login via vnc. Connecting to shares from other machines is a hit or miss. I have Greyhole running. Never had this kind of problem before. Please help!!!

Re: Cannot login

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:52 am
by bigfoot65
The hard shutdown may have corrupted something. You might also have some hardware going bad or flaking out. If you can SSH into the box, check the logs in /var/log directory.

You might also consider trying to google your problem and see if there is any solutions. This is something quite unusual that I have never seen before.

Re: Cannot login

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:12 pm
by radioz
You might also try booting from a liveCD. That would let you explore files on your drives while things are not working correctly.