CentOS - Jun 2015 - Any alternative to Single User Mode

Hi,
I am working on Centos6.6 on a VirtualBox on Windows Host. Today I started
to have booting issues in the OS. It won't get past the loading screen. I
checked and found that the files related to the user "cloudera" on the
system were not accessible. Only the files related to root were accessible.
This is why I was am not able to do a single user login but an emergency
login was possible. This is just a guess.
This all happened due to some update in the Virtual Machine that I use to
run CentOS.

Is there any workaround for this issue?

Thanks and regards,
Animesh Pandey

On 06/14/2015 06:28 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working on Centos6.6 on a VirtualBox on Windows Host. Today I started
> to have booting issues in the OS. It won't get past the loading screen.
I
> checked and found that the files related to the user "cloudera"
on the
> system were not accessible. Only the files related to root were accessible.
> This is why I was am not able to do a single user login but an emergency
> login was possible. This is just a guess.
> This all happened due to some update in the Virtual Machine that I use to
> run CentOS.
>
> Is there any workaround for this issue?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Animesh Pandey
I wish you could provide more info.

How can you determine that inaccessibility to a user's
files will prevent centos from taking you all the way to
the login (or welcome) screen?

I think something else is going on and my guess is that
the centos files themselves have been corruped.
Can you re-install centos ?

I actually opened the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) on http://www.vmxray.com/.
I could see that despite my disk being of 100GB only ~65GB was being shown.
All the stuff related ot the local user was not visible at all.
After I restarted my VM, the OS gets stuck here (
http://i.stack.imgur.com/KVYxV.png). Even after trying the single user
login it was stuck there. But the emergency mode worked alright.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:37 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/14/2015 06:28 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am working on Centos6.6 on a VirtualBox on Windows Host. Today I
started
>> to have booting issues in the OS. It won't get past the loading
screen. I
>> checked and found that the files related to the user
"cloudera" on the
>> system were not accessible. Only the files related to root were
>> accessible.
>> This is why I was am not able to do a single user login but an
emergency
>> login was possible. This is just a guess.
>> This all happened due to some update in the Virtual Machine that I use
to
>> run CentOS.
>>
>> Is there any workaround for this issue?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Animesh Pandey
>>
> I wish you could provide more info.
>
> How can you determine that inaccessibility to a user's
> files will prevent centos from taking you all the way to
> the login (or welcome) screen?
>
> I think something else is going on and my guess is that
> the centos files themselves have been corruped.
> Can you re-install centos ?
>
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