I think I can explain the problem with the login at the rescue
terminal. I just logged into the Xen shell and ran the console
command. This did not generate a response. After a while it gave an OK
which I assume means it had some sort of connection. Nothing much
happened so I hit enter which put me into the Rescue Environment but
without any credentials appearing.
Once I had failed to log in a couple of times the advice about Control
+ ] had risen up the screen and was no longer visible.
I paste the session below.
Steve
xen-shell> console
Running console for simpee - exit with Ctrl+]
[34294.348131] nfs: server 85.119.80.243 not responding, still trying
[34301.149539] nfs: server 85.119.80.243 OK
BitFolk Rescue Environment -
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Rescue
This virtual machine is running read-only over NFS with a unionfs ramdisk to
allow changes. This means:
- anything you write to its filesystem will not survive a reboot
- you only have about half your RAM size as writable space
If you need to write more, or you need it to persist past a reboot, you'll need
to use your VPS's storage. Please see:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Rescue#Persistence
for more information.
Your user account is called 'user' and its password has been randomly-generated
(see above). Be careful what you do with it as networking is now active and
sshd is running. The 'user' account has full sudo access.
rescue login: