Lost Root Pass

[Crath]

Well I had everything set up fine, and I created a second user account (so I could use it instead of root) and it kept bugging on me when I would set the password (authentication token manipulation error) and then It seemed I had it down, so I logged out, and tried logging into it, didnt work, so i logged back in root then tried to change the pass from the default, to something else (was curious if any password changing worked) so I did.  I even wrote it down on paper, and double checked to make sure I typed it exactly right. Now, none of the passwords work, for either account.

So, I wanted to do recovery mode, but I have no idea how to get into grub recovery mode, beacause I never see the screen.

I am using putty over the usb cable to connect to it.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

edit: i tried loading a linux live cd in via the usb port and an external dvd drive, but it kept saying no boot device whenever i tried "usbboot" from the marvell menu. ahh!

[fragfutter]

no grub on the plug

connect with the serial console. start plug. stop at marvel boot prompt. check current content of bootargs (printenv). modify them to contain a init=/bin/sh (setenv bootargs ...). do _not_ save this environment. continue booting (bootm if i remember correctly). modify password. reboot.

If you have trouble, post the content of the u-boot environment.

[Crath]

no grub on the plug

connect with the serial console. start plug. stop at marvel boot prompt. check current content of bootargs (printenv). modify them to contain a init=/bin/sh (setenv bootargs ...). do _not_ save this environment. continue booting (bootm if i remember correctly). modify password. reboot.

If you have trouble, post the content of the u-boot environment.

Thanks! I tried that, but every time i try, it just finishes loading the kernal then nothing happens. Here is my printenv

Code:

Marvell>> printenv
baudrate=115200
loads_echo=0
rootpath=/mnt/ARM_FS/
netmask=255.255.0.0
console=console=ttyS0,115200
CASset=min
MALLOC_len=1
ethprime=egiga0
bootargs_root=root=/dev/mtdblock2 ro
ethmtu=1500
usb0Mode=host
nandEcc=1bit
ethact=egiga0
serverip=10.10.0.2
ipaddr=10.10.0.1
cesvcid=ULULULULULULPPULULULULULDA
bootargs_end=:::DB88FXX81:eth0:none
image_name=uImage
standalone=fsload 0x2000000 $(image_name);setenv bootargs $(console) root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end) $(mvPhoneConfig); bootm 0x2000000;
mvPhoneConfig=mv_phone_config=dev0:fxs,dev1:fxs
mvNetConfig=mv_net_config=(00:11:88:0f:62:81,0:1:2:3),mtu=1500
yuk_ethaddr=00:00:00:EE:51:81
netretry=no
rcvrip=169.254.100.100
loadaddr=0x02000000
autoload=no
ethaddr=00:50:43:01:67:0C
run_diag=no
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) rw root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw ip=10.4.50.4:10.4.50.5:10.4.50.5:255.255.255.0:DB88FXX81:eth0:none
bootcmd=nand read.e 0x800000 0x100000 0x400000; bootm 0x800000
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
mainlineLinux=no
enaMonExt=no
enaCpuStream=no
enaWrAllo=no
pexMode=RC
disL2Cache=no
setL2CacheWT=yes
disL2Prefetch=yes
enaICPref=yes
enaDCPref=yes
sata_dma_mode=yes
netbsd_en=no
vxworks_en=no
bootdelay=3
disaMvPnp=no
enaAutoRecovery=yes

and I tried appending your modification to the end and updating it with this

Code:

setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) rw root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw ip=10.4.50.4:10.4.50.5:10.4.50.5:255.255.255.0:DB88FXX81:eth0:none,init=/bin/sh

is that what you mean by u-boot env?

also, when i do bootm, it says "bad magic number"

edit: finally got it to boot after doing that sentenv, but it just boots like normal (asks for sheeva login)

[hypn0toad]

Well I had everything set up fine, and I created a second user account (so I could use it instead of root) and it kept bugging on me when I would set the password (authentication token manipulation error) and then It seemed I had it down, so I logged out, and tried logging into it, didnt work, so i logged back in root then tried to change the pass from the default, to something else (was curious if any password changing worked) so I did.  I even wrote it down on paper, and double checked to make sure I typed it exactly right. Now, none of the passwords work, for either account.

So, I wanted to do recovery mode, but I have no idea how to get into grub recovery mode, beacause I never see the screen.

I am using putty over the usb cable to connect to it.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

edit: i tried loading a linux live cd in via the usb port and an external dvd drive, but it kept saying no boot device whenever i tried "usbboot" from the marvell menu. ahh!

oddd.. i just lost control of my plug too.  it always says incorrect username/password.  however... i'm pretty sure i'm using the right password.  actually the only way i can see it getting messed up is from someone else changing the password?  i don't think this is very likely. 

anyways, i also lost my root password somehow.  i had it changed to something else a while ago, and it stopped working a week or two ago.

ill try fixing it this way or maybe will just reformat everythign... we will see.

[Crath]

Well I had everything set up fine, and I created a second user account (so I could use it instead of root) and it kept bugging on me when I would set the password (authentication token manipulation error) and then It seemed I had it down, so I logged out, and tried logging into it, didnt work, so i logged back in root then tried to change the pass from the default, to something else (was curious if any password changing worked) so I did.  I even wrote it down on paper, and double checked to make sure I typed it exactly right. Now, none of the passwords work, for either account.

So, I wanted to do recovery mode, but I have no idea how to get into grub recovery mode, beacause I never see the screen.

I am using putty over the usb cable to connect to it.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

edit: i tried loading a linux live cd in via the usb port and an external dvd drive, but it kept saying no boot device whenever i tried "usbboot" from the marvell menu. ahh!

oddd.. i just lost control of my plug too.  it always says incorrect username/password.  however... i'm pretty sure i'm using the right password.  actually the only way i can see it getting messed up is from someone else changing the password?  i don't think this is very likely. 

anyways, i also lost my root password somehow.  i had it changed to something else a while ago, and it stopped working a week or two ago.

ill try fixing it this way or maybe will just reformat everythign... we will see.

I was gong to attempt to put a fresh install of ubuntu server on it, but didnt think it would fit, also, it looked like it was very hard todo

[Crath]

anybody have any ideas? :\

[fragfutter]

there has to be a blank not a comma before the init=/bin/sh

[Crath]

there has to be a blank not a comma before the init=/bin/sh

hmm thanks, now when i boot it just goes through like this and stops at t end

Code:

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux.............................................................                        ....................................................................... done, bo                        oting the kernel.
Linux version 2.6.22.18 (dhaval@devbox) (gcc version 4.2.1) #1 Thu Mar 19 14:46:                        22 IST 2009
CPU: ARM926EJ-S [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053177
Machine: Feroceon-KW
Using UBoot passing parameters structure
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache
CPU0: I cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 128 sets
CPU0: D cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 128 sets
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 130048
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x400000@0x100000(uI                        mage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) rw root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw ip=10.4.50.4:10.4.50                        .5:10.4.50.5:255.255.255.0:DB88FXX81:eth0:none init=/bin/sh
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 256MB 256MB 0MB 0MB = 512MB total
Memory: 515456KB available (3864K code, 257K data, 104K init)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16

CPU Interface
-------------
SDRAM_CS0 ....base 00000000, size 256MB
SDRAM_CS1 ....base 10000000, size 256MB
SDRAM_CS2 ....disable
SDRAM_CS3 ....disable
PEX0_MEM ....base e8000000, size 128MB
PEX0_IO ....base f2000000, size   1MB
INTER_REGS ....base f1000000, size   1MB
NFLASH_CS ....base fa000000, size   2MB
SPI_CS ....base f4000000, size  16MB
BOOT_ROM_CS ....no such
DEV_BOOTCS ....no such
CRYPT_ENG ....base f0000000, size   2MB

  Marvell Development Board (LSP Version KW_LSP_4.2.7_patch2)-- SHEEVA PLUG  Soc                        : 88F6281 A0 LE

 Detected Tclk 200000000 and SysClk 400000000
MV Buttons Device Load
Marvell USB EHCI Host controller #0: c08b8600
PEX0 interface detected no Link.
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers enabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: kw_clocksource clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
RTC registered
Use the XOR engines (acceleration) for enhancing the following functions:
  o RAID 5 Xor calculation
  o kernel memcpy
  o kenrel memzero
Number of XOR engines to use: 4
cesadev_init(c000c894)
mvCesaInit: sessions=640, queue=64, pSram=f0000000
Warning: TS unit is powered off.
MV Buttons Driver Load
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O].
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) é 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xf1012100 (irq = 34) is a 16550A
Loading Marvell Ethernet Driver:
  o Cached descriptors in DRAM
  o DRAM SW cache-coherency
  o Single RX Queue support - ETH_DEF_RXQ=0
  o Single TX Queue support - ETH_DEF_TXQ=0
  o TCP segmentation offload enabled
  o Receive checksum offload enabled
  o Transmit checksum offload enabled
  o Network Fast Processing (Routing) supported
  o Driver ERROR statistics enabled
  o Driver INFO statistics enabled
  o Proc tool API enabled
  o Rx descripors: q0=128
  o Tx descripors: q0=532
  o Loading network interface(s):
    o eth0, ifindex = 1, GbE port = 0
    o eth1, ifindex = 2, GbE port = 1

mvFpRuleDb (dfd00000): 16384 entries, 65536 bytes
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k4-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation

Warning Sata is Powered Off
NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.98 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.41 $
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0xdc (Hynix NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Scanning device for bad blocks
2 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device nand_mtd
Using command line partition definition
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "nand_mtd":
0x00100000-0x00500000 : "uImage"
0x00500000-0x20000000 : "rootfs"
ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: Marvell Orion EHCI
ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: irq 19, io base 0xf1050100
ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_marvell and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i2c /dev entries driver
Linux telephony interface: v1.00
Marvell Telephony Driver:
mvBoardVoiceAssembleModeGet: TDM not supported(boardId=0x9)
assembly=-1,irq=-1
mp_check_config: Error, invalid voice assembley mode
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
raid6: int32x1     97 MB/s
raid6: int32x2    114 MB/s
raid6: int32x4    122 MB/s
raid6: int32x8    111 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm int32x4 (122 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   arm4regs  :  1084.000 MB/sec
   8regs     :   754.800 MB/sec
   32regs    :   899.600 MB/sec
raid5: using function: arm4regs (1084.000 MB/sec)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
dm_crypt using the OCF package.
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
mvsdmmc: irq =28 start f1090000
mvsdmmc: no IRQ detect
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 200                        7 UTC).
mvCLAudioCodecRegGet: Error while reading register!
mvCLAudioCodecInit: Error - Invalid Cirrus Logic chip/rev ID!
Error - Cannot initialize audio decoder.at address =0xff<6>ALSA device list:
  #0: Marvell mv88fx_snd ALSA driver
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
eth0: started
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=10.4.50.4, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=10.4.50.5,
     host=DB88FXX81, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=10.4.50.5, rootserver=10.4.50.5, rootpath=
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Empty flash at 0x0bba0b90 ends at 0x0bba1000
Empty flash at 0x0cd194b8 ends at 0x0cd19800
Empty flash at 0x1c194e04 ends at 0x1c195000
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 104K
scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            JLMS     XJ-HD166S        DS18 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
JFFS2 notice: (263) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x0cd19000: read 0x8ef8e4e7, calculated 0x2185cf86.
JFFS2 notice: (263) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x0bba0800: read 0x7fa9eb48, calculated 0xc32b9635.
JFFS2 notice: (263) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x1c194000: read 0x84afef2a, calculated 0x81ac1afc.

[fragfutter]

and now you hit enter and will get a nice root@(none):/# commandprompt.

[Crath]

and now you hit enter and will get a nice root@(none):/# commandprompt.

I tried hitting enter many times, each time i would get to that. it would just go to a new line and show nothign. i even tried simple commands like ls and cd / and nothing would happen.

[fragfutter]

strange installation you have there. You could try again with init=/bin/bash but should be the same.

[Crath]

strange installation you have there. You could try again with init=/bin/bash but should be the same.

ahh thank you! That worked... but now im in and having the same issues as before :p

"passwd: Authentication token manipulation error"

every time i try to change the root pass, or the pass of any account. I even tried making a fresh acc.

I deleted /etc/shadow but don't understand the whole pwconvert thing

edit, i tried deleting /etc/shadow, then running passwd and changing my pass, with no luck, and i tried doing pwconv and then sync. blah!

any tips?

[fragfutter]

you are root, you can edit /etc/shadow an place a new password hash there (openssl passwd -1 -salt Naen4S). Or you can place a encrypted password in /etc/passwd and then run pwconv to create a new shadow (but this will loose all other account passwords). Or you can edit /etc/sudoerrs and add you normal account to the right sudo group, reboot and run sudo passwd.