root login stops working

[Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल]

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Flynn <dennis_flynn at yahoo.com> writes:
    Dennis> I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

    Dennis> About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the console.

    Dennis> I see the following in /var/log/auth.log:
    Dennis> May 10 14:22:37 wx sshd[86223]: Accepted password for root from 10.11.12.104 port 1492 ssh2
    Dennis> May 10 14:22:37 wx sshd[86223]: Received disconnect from 10.11.12.104: 0: 

    Dennis> And in /var/log/messages:
    Dennis> May 10 14:27:51 wx kernel: pid 86237 (csh), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

Looks like your shell segfaulted during login., resulting in your ssh session being aborted.

How about booting in single user mode ? And does your installation
underwent any filesystem recovery ? You can try reinstalling csh from
freebsd installation disc, and then try.

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल                      http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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