su: no shell

[Warren griggs]

Hi,

When i try to log into my machine i get an error message saying...

su: no shell
memory fault

I have booted to single user and tried to restore /home but this has not worked.
This happened after some data was moved about in the /home area.

Any ideas would be great (apart from a restore!)

Thanks in advance,

Colin.

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

How about the permissions of /home or restored directories ?

C.

[Clemens van Everdingen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Maybe even the permissions on /
should be:

drwxr-xr-x 31 root root

C.

[Ravi_8]

Hi, colin

In /etc/passwd
for user root shell must be /sbin/sh
for users it can be /usr/sbin/ksh or /usr/sbin/sh

[Cheryl Griffin]

Also check the permissions of /
# ll -d /

Correct them with:
# chmod 755 /

Login as the user, instead of su and see if there is a different error message. It may indicate something wrong with the user still. Compare it to the entry in /etc/passwd verifying the right user directory and shell.

Cheryl

[Joseph A Benaiah_1]

Colin,

I have seen this on servers running HP-UX 10.20.

You can rectify this by installing PHKL_20356 which is the AdvJFS: fix direct read to return correct error patch.

Cheers,

Joseph.