Can't login anymore directly on the server except for root
[email protected] Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:54:53 +0100 (CET)
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.education |
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------=_Part_71046_3320348.1770886493538 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, I'm running an old buster debian edu server for some years now. A few months ago the harddrive started to fail. Consequently I mirrored the faulty one to a new one using dd, which fixed my problem nicely. About 2 days ago I tried a glibc update. I knew that this is a risky task but still wanted to try. Anyway, I failed. Since I still had the broken hard drive available I simply mirrored it again to my harddrive. Again, this worked nicely and the system is booting again. Unfortunately, unlike in the last attempt, I'm not able to login except as user root. I had similiar issues like this before in the past and it occurs e.g. when the date is not set correctly. This time it appears to be a different issue. How can I fix or debug this? Kind regards, Roman ------=_Part_71046_3320348.1770886493538 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="default-style">Hi folks,</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">I'm running an old buster debian edu server for some years now.</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">A few months ago the harddrive started to fail. Consequently I mirrored the faulty one to a new one using dd, which fixed my problem nicely.</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">About 2 days ago I tried a glibc update. I knew that this is a risky task but still wanted to try. Anyway, I failed.</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">Since I still had the broken hard drive available I simply mirrored it again to my harddrive. Again, this worked nicely and the system is booting again. Unfortunately, unlike in the last attempt, I'm not able to login except as user root.</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">I had similiar issues like this before in the past and it occurs e.g. when the date is not set correctly. This time it appears to be a different issue. How can I fix or debug this?</div> <div class="default-style"> </div> <div class="default-style">Kind regards,</div> <div class="default-style">Roman</div> </body> </html> ------=_Part_71046_3320348.1770886493538--