Hans Granqvist (hansg@risken.vd.volvo.se) wrote:
: All of a sudden, when I tried to boot my machine the other day,
: at typing in a username, linux responded with:
: 
:       No utmp entry.  You must exec "login" from
:       the lowest level "sh"
: 
: and then returns to the username prompt.
: 
: Neither booting from the floppy made at a previous rebuild of
: kernel, nor booting from different kernels make any difference. It's
: clearly the case of a corrupt file system.
: 
: Anybody got a clue what to do, and, if so, how to prevent this from
: happening again?
: --
: Hans Granqvist, Volvo Data Corp., Gothenburg, Sweden  ---  my opinions only
: ``Yu Dring Yu Draiv Yu Dai'' - Papua New Guinea campaign on Rot Seifiti

Although there are several problems which can cause this message to appear,
ours was quite simple... The root partition had been filled by a crazy
syslogd that had written 2.5M of warnings.  Check and make sure you have
free space in /.

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