no utmp entry - you must login from lowest level-sh

[jaminas]

I could'nt logon to my hp-ux box (ver 10.20)using the console. It shows the error messages in the subject above.

I can rlogin to it from another terminal but could not on the local console.

What is the cause? and permanent solution to it?

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Nasir, please log into your machine and make sure that your files system is not full.

Please post the output for bdf.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The root fs is probably full.

The utmp entry can not be created because of this.

log in in single user mode and clear some files.

Or do it from root telnet/ssh session

SEP

[jaminas]

Thanks to SEP & Jaime, I have solved the problem by doing the following steps:

# mv /etc/utmp /etc/utmp.bad
# touch /etc/utmp
# vi /etc/inittab

==> change the line that has

cons:123456:respawn .....

to

cons:123456:off.....

#init q

# vi /etc/inittab

==> change the previous line that you've edit back to what was before.

cons:123456:respawn .....

#init q


that does the magic!

bye