Re: [gentoo-alt] I tried installing gentoo prefix on WSL2 running debian.....

[Fabian Groffen]

It's VERY unlikely that messing around with your .bashrc results in a
"unknown user" login error.


On 18-07-2019 10:19:57 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I tried this but now I cannot log back in again.
>
> The log in box doesn't recognise my username.
>
> Something like rescatux or some other system recovery software might help here.
>
> I could use a live distro of debian to resize the root partition to create some
> free space and then install debian alongside it
>
> and then chroot into the clear linux install and fix the .bashrc file and rescue
> clear linux and prefix together.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> MF
>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 10:05, Fabian Groffen <[1]grobian@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On 18-07-2019 09:02:49 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I have edited the .bashrc file and commented out the offending lines.
> > >
> > > See here:
> > >
> > >  more ../.bashrc
> > > # Use global profile when available
> > > #if [ -f /usr/share/defaults/etc/profile ]; then
> > > # . /usr/share/defaults/etc/profile
> > > #fi
> > > # allow admin overrides
> > > if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
> > > . /etc/profile
> > > fi
>
> > I would remove the above one too...
>
> > > Exiting on signal Signals.SIGINT
> > > mikef@clr-0fdd1f831fb14378ac28883a158cf04d ~/gentoo $ eselect read news
> > > !!! Error: Can't load module read
> > > exiting
>
> > $ eselect news read
>
> > :)
>
> > Fabian
>
> > --
> > Fabian Groffen
> > Gentoo on a different level
>
>
>
>  References:
>    1. mailto:grobian@g.o
>
> read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8:
-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level