login prompt not working!

[Bradley Bell]

I've had similar things happen to me when I had zero disk space left, or
my disc was mounted readonly for some reason.  Do you see any suspicious
messages while booting up?

-brad

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Benjamin Honsinger wrote:

> I just finished installing mandrake 7.1 and now I can't log in as root or a
> normal user at the login prompt. I know the passwords are correct, and the root
> password worked when it dropped me into a maintenance shell in a failed boot.
> Help! 
> 
> - Ben
> 
> PS Some other things seem generally screwed up too; modprobe can't find certain
> files after the system enters runlevel 3, stuff like that. Hopefully I can fix
> those things if I can login....
>