When you boot, try getting a text terminal by ctrl-alt-F2 and see if
you can enter your account and password.
If so, then you may have to run xf86config if you have upgraded to a
new version of xfree86.
If you can't get into the system, then you can delete the password for
root and then re-enter it once you are in. I think progeny uses grub
for the boot loader so you may have to use a rescue disk (a debian
install cd let's you get a shell, which you can use ).
You need to get a shell, mount your root partition, and then edit
/etc/shadow with an editor (if you are using the Debian CD, you can use
the small ae editor) I assume you have shadow passwords - otherwise
you will have to edit /etc/passwd. In any case you can make a backup
copy before you edit the file if you are worried about screwing things
up.
Just delete everything between the first two colons (:) on the root
line, and replace it with a asterisk. Save and unmount the partition,
then shutdown and reboot. Then you should be able to get into root
without a password.
After you can get into the system, issue the passwd command and
recreate your root password. Then it's time to finish the conversion
to Woody. (for some reason I thought you had installed debian stable
in place of your progeny )
When using apt, sometimes you'll have to use -f option and maybe even
do the command several times when you are upgrading such a large amount
of files.
I found this page on upgrading from Progeny to unstable. Since you are
upgrading from Progeny you may have to do the extra command they show
with dpkg.
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=414
the relevant text is below:
" Having now done 2 Progeny->sid sidegrades, it's
quite easy. All you need is the latest Debian
unstable sources in your sources.list and nothing
else (well, non-US, but that's it). Now, type:
# apt-get update
# dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6
# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
You may need to do this a couple of times, but
just doing it once
worked for me, though I've only tried this on two
machines. It's
quite a good way to install Debian, if you hate
the installer. "
scott
Doc - KD4E wrote:
> Gee, Ollie, I've gone and made a real mess now! :-)
>
> I downloaded and installed Woody using apt-get. When the
> process was finished and I went to shut down Progeny (in which
> many files were replaced by generic Debian files during the Woody
> install) I got a small window with some boxes but no text. I had to
> power down.
>
> Since it was then 1:30AM I decided to wait until morning.
>
> Powered up and it loaded 2.2.18 and ran through some stuff and
> then presented a log-in window with no text and when I tried to
> enter Root and Password it doesn't recognize my entry.
>
> I think that the Woody install bollixed up the keyboard mapping
> as I recall some poorly explained choices during the Woody install
> and selected the default.
>
> During the Woody setup I made these non-default choices (in some
> cases there was no default):
>
> bsd-ftpd Yes re. use debconf
> Postfix Internet Site
> World Writable Mail Drop Yes
> Locales (no explanation of options offered) af_ZA ISO-8859-1
> [Edit: /etc/locale.gen then Run: locale-gen]
>
> Error: libgnomeprint15 depends on GS, not yet configured.
>
> While the Woody install was processing I received the following
> errors:
>
> libwww-perl
> lintian
> dpkg-dev
> devscripts
> alien
> kernel-package
> dh-make
> gmc
> libgnomeprint15
> libgnomeprint-bin
> libgnomeprint-date
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Help? Doc
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