Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue CD - Unable to login

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 14:40, dav...@ag... wrote:
> Kern,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I found my login problem.  It was due to the fact
> that we change the shell type for root.  Once I added it to the
> "rootsbin.list" the login worked fine.

Ah, now that is something to document -- thanks.

>
> I really like what you have done with the Bacula Rescue so far.  Easy to
> follow and the first one I tried that actually created a 'bootable' image
> :-)  

Yes, that is the idea -- make it so easy that no one has an excuse not to use 
it.

> I am currently looking at the 'getdiskinfo' script to figure out why 
> no "partition." or "format." files were created.  Looks like it got
> confused with the "/dev/cciss/c*d*" device file types.

Yes, it only understands a few device types -- the one's I have and the one's 
people have made submissions for (RAID).  It is all pretty simple as you will 
see, so please let me know if you come up with something.

Now that Knoppix has a 2.6 kernel, I'm focusing on making the Bacula scripts 
remaster a Knoppix disk.  This won't give you your system as my scripts did, 
but if I can put remastering plus the Bacula generated files in a simple 
script, it might be a nice compromise.  A minor disadvantage is it needs 
several GB of disk space.

>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:ke...@si...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:07 PM
> To: bac...@li...
> Cc: WENDT,DAVID (A-ColSprings,ex1)
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue CD - Unable to login
>
> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 19:01, dav...@ag... wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to create Bacula Rescue CD.  I installed the following RPM's
> > on my server,
> >
> > bacula-rescue-1.36.3-1
> > bacula-client-1.36.3-1
> >
> > and the creation of the bootcd.iso seemed to go fine with the 'make all'
> > since I was able to successful boot from the image.
> >
> > The problem I am having is that at the login prompt, I am unable to log
> > in. When I try to log in as root with the valid login, the login prompt
> > just re-appears.  If I try to use a 'invalid' passwd, I get a "password
> > incorrect' message.  Any ideas?  Shadow passwd's are being used and the
> > kernel is 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp.
>
> One other user mentioned the same thing but on a Mandrake system, if I
> remember right. Unfortunately, I never had such problems, and I've now
> moved up to FC3 so everything is different.
>
> The Bacula rescue disk IMO is something really valuable, but it has been an
> enormous pain for me because of such reports and the change in boot
> sequence between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.  I still have not been able to get
> the rescue disk working on 2.6.
>
> I'm now looking at a number of different LiveCDs, some of which allow users
> to add their own data files.  This takes an enormous amount of time
> researching, but it would be an ideal solution for me -- I could then leave
> the boot details to others and concentrate on the Bacula rescue part :-)
>
> In an off chance, you might try commenting out (or deleting) the line that
> reads
>
> exec >/dev/console </dev/console 2>&1
>
> in rescue/linux/cdrom/roottree/linuxrc

-- 
Best regards,

Kern

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