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Old September 13th, 2007
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Re: HMC 7315-C01 - Power4 problem...Help please !!!

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Originally Posted by cdelgadop
Hmmm, well, if you have managed to get into rescue then you can view the contents of /etc/shadow file, you can create a backup of such file and edit this file so hscroot userid does not have a password.
Well, the hscroot password is not my problem, just to give you a little more information.

The HMC will boot up fine and filecheck itself, it will then arrive at the HMC login screen...

I can then login as hscroot and it will start to login and then all that happens is I get a BLANK xserver screen with the large X mouse cursor and that is as far as it will go, I have left the system at this point for a number of hours but nothing else happens, there is no disk activity. I can do nothing else at this point except to move the cursor around the screen with the mouse and eventually I have to power off the HMC and reboot to go through the same process again.

All that I can do is attempt to break into the boot process, which will cause the fsck to fail and enter Maintenance Mode asking for the root password, which I can enter to give me a shell prompt at which point I can manually check the filesystems and mount them manually, and then I effectively have root access to the HMC, but I am not sure what I can do from there without some further guidance.

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