Very Computer

:)

  Well I have landed up with this problem(rather it is my buddy who is
but doesnot have a net conn.). Well,

  Recently while the system was on the power went out.Then when the
system was started later this was the following error message:

[error]
X conflicts failed in /var/run (176519) has a incorrect file type was
OT should be 7
Run fsck manually witout option -a -p
An error occured during the filesystem
Dropping you to a shell.When you leave the shell give root password
from maintainance.Press Control+D for normal starting.
[/error]

  Now when root password is typed in, the system doesnot accept the
root password.Gives Incorrect password.I assure the password is
correct.
  If Ctrl+D is pressed the whole process happens all over again.

  What is supposed to done to bring up the system back again?Has Linux
to be installed again on a clean partiton or can the problem be solved
without that(would be so much better if possible)?

  For the sake of completeness,
  Distro : RedHat 7.1
  GUI    : Gnome

  Please please help.Really APPRETIATE any help.THANX in advance.

Regards
Pradeepto

On 14 Nov 2002 06:25:35 -0800,

Quote:>:)

>   Well I have landed up with this problem(rather it is my buddy who is
> but doesnot have a net conn.). Well,

>   Recently while the system was on the power went out.Then when the
> system was started later this was the following error message:

> [error]
> X conflicts failed in /var/run (176519) has a incorrect file type was
> OT should be 7
> Run fsck manually witout option -a -p
> An error occured during the filesystem
> Dropping you to a shell.When you leave the shell give root password
> from maintainance.Press Control+D for normal starting.
> [/error]

>   Now when root password is typed in, the system doesnot accept the
> root password.Gives Incorrect password.I assure the password is
> correct.
>   If Ctrl+D is pressed the whole process happens all over again.

>   What is supposed to done to bring up the system back again?Has Linux
> to be installed again on a clean partiton or can the problem be solved
> without that(would be so much better if possible)?

Did you run fsck as it said to?  You might have to reinstall Linux.  At
least you will probably need to boot from the CDROM in rescue mode, and
copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files from the CD to the root partition.