User login hangs system

[Net Llama!]

On 03/12/03 17:22, Bill Davidson wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:57:41 -0800
> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote:
>> > I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play
>> > around with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem
>> > for another day. In trying to get the alsa modules to load, my
>> > system would hang, taking out everything(keyboard, network),
>> > requiring a manual reset. 
>> > 
>> > Now my system appears thoroughly hosed. It hangs just like above
>> > when I try to log in as a user other than root. I tried removing the
>> > user and adding it again, as well as adding a new user. I have no
>> > problems with root. When I run a command, such as less somefile, the
>> > screen fills up with junk, I get a message telling me to hit enter(I
>> > forget the exact message). When I hit enter, the command executes as
>> > normal.
>> > 
>> > One other thing. reiserfsck reports no filesystem corruption and
>> > nothing shows up in my logs. Any ideas. I thought about recompiling
>> > the bases system, but it doesn't seem to me that reinstalling
>> > everything would be necessary.
>> 
>> so at no time was there any file system corruption?
> 
> It appears that way. I hesitate to say for sure, I could have missed it
> when I booted, but like I said, there is nothing in my logs that would
> indicate that fsck found anything wrong. I did, however forget to

does reiserfs use lost+found?  if so, check in it for each mounted 
filesystem.

> mention this error I got the last time I ran lilo(yesterday).
> 
> Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for
> device 0x81    Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
>       BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> 
> Lilo still finishes and I'm still able to boot into my gentoo and
> libranet system.

that's harmless.

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