"Bad shell" warning message after reboot...?!

[eepico]

Hiya,

My HP-UX 10.20 box came across a problem on reboot... Everytime when I issue shutdown -y -r now to reboot the box, after reboot finished and start running init, it pops out a warning message saying that something like "Bad shell /usr/bin/ksh for root, please change the /etc/passwd and reboot" and then it auto switches to run-level S! Thus I have to maunnally type init 3 to bring the box into normal operation.

I guess maybe the mount point of "/usr" is not mounted during init so I changed the root shell to "/bin/sh". But it has no change at all... still warning me again (Bad shell /bin/sh)! What's wrong in the box...?! Any hints?

Happy New Year
Jack

 

[KenCunningham]

I take it /bin/sh is included in /etc/passwd and actually exists? Could it be corrupted? Or perhaps the entry in /etc/passwd is corrupted - try deleting and retyping.

 

[eepico]

Yes, the /bin/sh really exists in /etc/passwd first root entry and the shell file is also there. If the passwd file was corrupted, how can I fix it? Thanks.