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sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:57 pm
by piglet
I get this every time when I try and shut down.
New install of the raspbian image, apt-get updated and rpi-update. No other configuration changes made other than installing links2 and rpi-update + required git.
On issuing "sudo shutdown -f now" I get the message noted in the subject, and the pi is left with root logged in: root@raspberrypi.
Do you know how to fix it? I'm not going to ask Jim....
TIA
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:21 am
by azeam
"-f" is not a valid option as far as I know. Do you get the same error with
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:22 am
by techpaul
Why not use the aliases
sudo halt
sudo reboot
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:59 pm
by mcgyver83
Hi all, after installing xbmc following this guide
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 66&t=12455 I fall down in the piglet situation: sudo reboot, sudo shutdown -r now don't reboot the raspberry. The subject message appear..any hints?
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:53 am
by rishad
I had the same problem today. In the messages it says run 'fsck' manually
Try
> fsck
This solved my problem
Thanks
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:50 am
by JamesTWatson21
these commands worked for me, I kept shorting out the raspberry pi, and it kept hard rebooting causing the file-system to get corrupt.
Code: Select all
sudo umount /boot
sudo fsck.fat -a /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo fsck.fat -a /dev/mmcblk0p8
sudo reboot
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:45 am
by IgorGanapolsky
azeam wrote:"-f" is not a valid option as far as I know. Do you get the same error with
This doesn't solve anything for me. Just a blank blue screen.
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:46 am
by IgorGanapolsky
techpaul wrote:Why not use the aliases
sudo halt
sudo reboot
sudo halt just puts in a blue screen. What is it supposed to do?
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:51 am
by IgorGanapolsky
rishad wrote:I had the same problem today. In the messages it says run 'fsck' manually
Try
> fsck
This solved my problem
Thanks
I get an error:
/dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:57 pm
by Rev02
I had the same problem mine was to do with drive mounting. I had a drive set to automatically mount and when it wasn't plugged in, it caused my pi to go in to safe mode all i had to do was plug the drive in at boot. Hope this helps anyone else.
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:56 pm
by Szabi
If you have changed the /etc/fstab file then change it back as it was before. Since you messed up boot location. That caused for me the booting issue.
Re: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:21 pm
by monand
And how can I change the file if I can not have access?
I'm new with raspberry pi.
Thank you in advance,