Lots of people responded. Too many to thank personally. Many people suggested checking the startup scripts, running pwconv, and other things. The answer came from adh@an.bradford.ma.us He said: sync the disk to force a write? I did that it worked. The system is up and running. Thanks again everybody! Original message: I have a 220R running Solaris 8 that is behaving really weird. Basically when it comes up normally, it says "missing or bad passwd entry for <root>'. So I boot from cdrom into single-user mode. I have to run fsck. Mount the volume. There is no passwd file. So I copy one from a near identical machine and edit the file to make sure it matches the shadow file. Fine. fsck the other volumes. fsck finishes. I do it a few more times for paranoia's sake, especially /. It comes back clean. So I reboot. The cycle repeats. I can't log in as root since there is no root user. Any ideas on what to do, short of rebuilding the box? Any help is greatly appreciated! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Mar 10 15:05:21 2006
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