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Re: System halts whilst booting

 
Tommy_8
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‎12-04-2003 09:38 PM

‎12-04-2003 09:38 PM

System halts whilst booting

When I rebooted my K580 HPUX 10.20, it halted and went into single user. The error message I got was root::0:3::/:/usr/bin/sh
bad shell "/usr/bin/sh" for root

this took me to the passwd file were I made a copy and vi'ed the password from the original.
when rebooting the system haled at the same point. I typed init 3 and the system is running normally, but I still have this problem any ideas.

Regards Tony
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Elmar P. Kolkman
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‎12-04-2003 09:43 PM

‎12-04-2003 09:43 PM

Re: System halts whilst booting

Is /usr mounted at that time? I think not, that's why root normally uses /sbin/sh as shell... /sbin is available in every run level, while /usr/bin (and /bin which is a symlink to /usr/bin) is not.
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