User login hangs system

[Bill Davidson]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:27 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.

No, it doesn't. :(