[The Mick]

I installed Fink for the first time last night on my G5 running Panther. All went well, and I used apt-get to install Gimp. Apt-get downloaded and installed alot of other packages like passwd etc. Gimp ran fine in X11 and I was happy, until I restarted the machine. The login window does not show my user accounts, and I cannot login with any username and password, even root. I can boot into single-user mode but I am not sure what to do after that.

I assume I need to restore a backup of my Netinfo database. I have a backup from a few days ago in /var/backups/local.nidump. I found an article at Apple's support site http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107210 that outlines restoring your local netinfo db on OS X Server. Is the process the same on Panther? Do you think that will fix the issue? Thanks alot!

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by The Mick:
I installed Fink for the first time last night on my G5 running Panther. All went well, and I used apt-get to install Gimp. Apt-get downloaded and installed alot of other packages like passwd etc. Gimp ran fine in X11 and I was happy, until I restarted the machine. The login window does not show my user accounts, and I cannot login with any username and password, even root. I can boot into single-user mode but I am not sure what to do after that.

I assume I need to restore a backup of my Netinfo database. I have a backup from a few days ago in /var/backups/local.nidump. I found an article at Apple's support site http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107210 that outlines restoring your local netinfo db on OS X Server. Is the process the same on Panther? Do you think that will fix the issue? Thanks alot!

Probably. Try it, nothing can go wrong your system if ****ed up anyway. If it doesn't work --> reinstall.