On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:18 -0500, ra wrote:

> /bin/bash is not a valid shell

/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin. Did you put /usr on a separate partition?
You really should break out only swap and /export/home.

> So I'm thinking that I'm in failsafe mode maybe? Thanks for any help.

You probably need to run fsck to clean up the filesystems. Be sure that
any which are mounted are mounted read-only.

I think you can refer to the filesystems with their symbolic names:

fsck -F ufs /
fsck -F ufs /export/home

If not then you will have to determine the raw devices on which the
filesystems reside. In that case - on my system:

fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 for the / partition
fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s7 for the /export/home partition.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:18 -0500, ra wrote:
>
>> /bin/bash is not a valid shell
>
> /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin. Did you put /usr on a separate partition?
> You really should break out only swap and /export/home.

I installed it with all of the defaults. So whatever is the default is
how I'm set up.

>
>> So I'm thinking that I'm in failsafe mode maybe? Thanks for any help.
>
> You probably need to run fsck to clean up the filesystems. Be sure that
> any which are mounted are mounted read-only.
>
> I think you can refer to the filesystems with their symbolic names:
>
> fsck -F ufs /
> fsck -F ufs /export/home
>
> If not then you will have to determine the raw devices on which the
> filesystems reside. In that case - on my system:
>
> fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 for the / partition
> fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s7 for the /export/home partition.
>

Thanks, this worked. I was able to create a new user account for myself
too, but now I can't log into either environment (the CDE or the java
one) as the user, it only lets me log in as root. How can I fix that?
Thanks again for you help Dave.

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:00:20 -0500, ra wrote:

> Thanks, this worked. I was able to create a new user account for myself
> too, but now I can't log into either environment (the CDE or the java
> one) as the user, it only lets me log in as root. How can I fix that?
> Thanks again for you help Dave.

The user's home directory must exist and be owned by that user and have
correct permissions. If you forgot to use the -m option in the useradd
command then the simplest way to solve the problem is to remove the
account and redo it with *all* the command arguments.

userdel user_name
useradd -c "Real Name" -d /export/home/user_name -m -s /usr/bin/bash user_name

You should see something like "64 blocks added" after the useradd command.
Then "passwd user_name".

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:00:20 -0500, ra wrote:
>
>> Thanks, this worked. I was able to create a new user account for myself
>> too, but now I can't log into either environment (the CDE or the java
>> one) as the user, it only lets me log in as root. How can I fix that?
>> Thanks again for you help Dave.
>
> The user's home directory must exist and be owned by that user and have
> correct permissions. If you forgot to use the -m option in the useradd
> command then the simplest way to solve the problem is to remove the
> account and redo it with *all* the command arguments.
>
> userdel user_name
> useradd -c "Real Name" -d /export/home/user_name -m -s /usr/bin/bash user_name
>
> You should see something like "64 blocks added" after the useradd command.
> Then "passwd user_name".

Dave, it worked a charm! Thanks for your help!