Can't logon

[iamsam]

whenever i try loging on i type in root and then the password and i get this:

Linux 2.4.26
No mail.
-bash: id: command not found

-bash: fortune: command not found


then it just goes back to the login screen.

[opiate]

it appears bash is broken or the disk has corrupted, you'll have to reinstall bash, boot the system off a recovery disk and manually edit your entry in the passwd file for a different shell '/bin/sh' then save and reboot, once you can login try re-installing bash and fsck your drive to make sure its not corrupted.

[iLosTmyself]

i have the same problem so im going to reinstall slack

[sydzmizaar]

I have similar problem. I can logon as root but not as a user. I added an account for my self using adduser command and when I try to login I get:

Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

So I did:

# chmod 755 /bin/*
# ls -l -d /bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root bin 4096 2005-04-14 16:59 /bin/
# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root bin 666452 2004-11-03 23:30 /bin/bash*

And still I can't logon .
Can someone help me ??

[Snide]

whenever i try loging on i type in root and then the password and i get this:

Linux 2.4.26
No mail.
-bash: id: command not found

-bash: fortune: command not found


then it just goes back to the login screen.

I just recovered from this problem it was because I had changed permissions of /usr/lib & /usr/bin
I restored the permissions of the folders & then reinstalled bash
I used usermod -s /bin/bash "username" to change the shell to csh to see if I could login with the same user / pass.

Hope this helps,


Snide.