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Originally Posted by
jim mcnamara
You have a couple of choices
boot from cdrom - mount the / filesystem manually, make changes
boot to runlevel 1 - and if you can get in as root, make changes.
Thanks, but like I said, I still have an open session. I just need to know what needs to be done to fix this.
I have already restored the file, but still, no one can login in. I have even replaced the file from an equivelent system via scp (which is still working), but that did not work either. So, it is not the file itself that is munged.
Thanks!
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Another internal admin figured this out. Hope this helps someone else.
Doing a "su - user" (were user is some system account) also produces the error as I mentioned.
So, "strace su - user" actually points directly to the issue.
open("/var/log/lastlog", O_RDWR) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
Looking at /var/log/lastlog shows the reported file size to big for the filesystem. It's a sparse file. lol. Sweet. Nuke it, touch it. Viola. Working again.
T.