On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 17:04 -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
On 2015-06-19 16:29, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 01:13 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > I'm increasingly unconvinced that it has anything whatsoever to
> > do with
> > X. More like it can't start a login session. I'd guess that
> > recovery
> > mode does something that's just a bit different, as that is
> > the*only*
> > way I can get to a usable environment of any kind.
>
> Have you tried creating a new user?
Yes. *No* user can log in. Not the user I created at install, not a
newly created user, ***not root***.
The only way I can interact with the system *in any way* is in
emergency
mode.
Forgive me if this has already been asked, but have you run fsck on
your filesystem? Some of the things you've mentioned (corrupted
/var/log/messages) make me wonder whether something has happened to the
filesystem.
Jonathan