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[LI] strange problem



hello everybody,
    this has been happening for 1 day and i couldnt think of a
solution... can anybody help

this is a pentium 166, 32mb ram system with rh 5.2 installed without any
xwindows. it was working perfectly fine until a power failure. then it
gave the normal [ give root passwd for maintainance or ctrl-d for normal
shutdown ] message. on giving the root passwd and running fsck on
/dev/hda5 returns some errors and fixes them but the problem is this has
become the default login and no other user can use the system other than
the root. what could be wrong here. the person concerned is doing some
simple perl programming ( has just started )

please help :-)
--
Chetan Gopal K.
7th sem. Computer Science and Engineering,
U.V.C.E. Bangalore




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