"Or something to that effect. Unfortunately, I don't
have the screen to cut-and-paste from (not complaining). We ended
up getting this error for regular users and administrative users,
including root. It seemed like there wasn't an account available
that could log in to the box. Eventually the problem was solved,
but it was an interesting situation and, perhaps, some of the
following troubleshooting information might be of help to you in
the future (So you don't have to boot "rescue" off of CD more than
once ;)
"Here's how it went down (try to contain your excitement. This
is edge-of-your-seat stuff, so, please, go to the bathroom before
you continue reading ;)
"1. The first thing we did was to try logging in with all the
accounts we could think of. None of them worked, although we were
relatively sure that they were enabled and had worked
previously."