Can't Login

ill · 2012-10-15 02:55:37

I was trying to get mpd set up, following the wiki guide and now I can't use my password to enter sudo nor can I su into the root account. I really don't know whats up but now when I try to enter my password for sudo it says "System booting up" which it never used to after entering my sudo password. Pretty scared that if I reboot I won't be able to login to this box at all. Also, I was able to change my password with the passwd command, if that helps at all.

Pertinent log history:

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example /etc/mpd.conf
sudo nano /etc/mpd.conf
sudo mkdir /var/log/mpd
sudo chown -R mpd /var/log/mpd
sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create
sudo gpasswd -a mpd audio
sudo mkdir /var/lib/mpd/music
sudo echo "/home/james/Music /var/lib/mpd/music none bind" >> /etc/fstab
sudo gedit /etc/fstab 
sudo mount -a
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
sudo mount -a
sudo /etc/rc.d/mpd start
sudo touch /var/lib/mpd/{mpd.db,mpdstate}
sudo nano /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mpd.conf
sudo chown -R mpd /var/lib/mpd
sudo mpd --create-db
sudo /etc/rc.d/mpd start
yaourt -S mpc
mpc update
sudo nano /etc/rc.conf
ncmpcpp

My best guess is that the "sudo gpasswd -a mpd audio" messed something up.

Last edited by ill (2012-10-15 06:03:54)

ill · 2012-10-15 06:19:00

Turns out I entered the wrong root password, I can log into my root account fine but my user account still doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ill · 2012-10-15 22:25:44

Created a new user with the root account, everything works fine there. If I can fix the old account that would be great but if not I can just copy my configs over to this new account.

Trilby · 2012-10-15 22:29:23

Login as root, then

passwd <username>

ill · 2012-10-15 22:47:06

I tried that. "Also, I was able to change my password with the passwd command, if that helps at all."

jameslan · 2012-10-16 14:40:51

It seems like an error of group, you can try to find if the old account in the right groups, you can run "groups OLDACCOUNT" in root.
Good luck :-)

morrow · 2012-10-16 15:09:39

The problem lies with the command

systemd-tmpfiles --create

which when run with no arguments will recreate (if nonexistent) all files and directories listed within the various tmpfiles.d conf files in /lib/ and /etc/. The file responsible for this issue is /lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf, which contains (amongst other things):

F /run/nologin 0755 - - - "System is booting up."

The presence of /run/nologin prevents all non-root logins until removed. It's obviously removed later on in the boot process, but running systemd-tmpfiles --create recreated it. From what I can tell, you can just remove /run/nologin as root or simply reboot to fix the issue (assuming that you haven't already done so).

For reference, the command should be

systemd-tmpfiles --create mpd.conf

I've fixed this in the wiki.

Last edited by morrow (2012-10-16 15:11:17)

ill · 2012-10-16 22:22:06

Thanks, the file was no longer there after a reboot but still can't login to that user account. I'm just gonna stick with copying my files to the new users' home dir, thanks everyone for trying though.

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#1 2012-10-15 02:55:37

Can't Login

#2 2012-10-15 06:19:00

Re: Can't Login

#3 2012-10-15 22:25:44

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#5 2012-10-15 22:47:06

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