root password in the console

[Mohd M.]

My root account is disaled.
when I interupt the booting and try to login with the console i got the following message:
"Account is disabled but console login is allowed.
msgcnt 12 vxfs:mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/root file system full (i block extent.)
can't rewrite terminal control entry for console"

although the message state that i can login from the console but this messge is from the console.

i think i have a space problem for some logging files.

please help.

regards

Mohamed

[RAC_1]

Your root FS is full. Can you boot into single user mode and change your root password? then check what is utilizing the space under /. Root fs should not grow as it is a static file system.

Following command will give you directories that are using most of the space.

du -kx / | sort -nk1

[Mohd M.]

Dear

Can u give guides how to login in the single user mode.

regards

Mohamed Mahgoub

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Mohamed,

The root fs is full and when that happens, sometimes /etc/group gets zeroed out.

The only way to fix it now is to boot into single user mode and clear the files that filled things up.

Then run pwck and grpck.

SEP

[RAC_1]

On PDC prompt, interrupt the boot sequence and say Y to interact with ISL. Once on ISL prompt, do hpux -is

[Baiju Kumar.B_1]

Dear mohamad,
fot this problem you please check wether it is possible boot through lvm manintenance mode ,after interrupting pdc and from isl promp give hpux -im and try to delete the unwanted files from root file system.If it is not possible please restore the system from previous ignite unix recovery tape and during the recovery time you can able to change the root file system size

regards
Baiju Kumar.B

[Srikanth Arunachalam]

Hi Mohamed,

If the HP-UX version is 11.23 and your root password is disabled. The root account gets enabled just by logging from console with root users existing password.

Although this message is from console, it has already enabled the root user.

For the space problem, you need to tidy up from single user mode.

Thanks,
Srikanth