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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM, <kwkhui@××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:17:45 +0530 |
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> Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> There's some weird problem that has cropped up after update yesterday. |
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>> I'm not able to login as root on the tty nor as su -l and neither |
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>> using sudo su -l. Thankfully I had sudo, so I can get root by sudo -i, |
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>> or else it would've been a complete disaster. |
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>> The packages which were upgraded yesterday which can be causing this |
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>> is pambase, shadow and glibc. |
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>> Anybody has idea how to fix this? |
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>> (PS: I know very well that logging in as root is a bad practice and I |
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>> never do that, I just use su -l, so no flames please). |
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> If you mean shadow-4.1.5-r1 and pambase-20120417, read the previous |
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> pambase/shadow warning thread from 3 days ago, or bug #412721, or you |
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> can read it on phajdan.jr's blog |
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> http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2012/04/watch-out-for-shadow-415-r1-and-pambase.html |
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> Anyway, if you upgrade glibc, you must recompile pam |
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> afterwards manually (sorry it wasn't clear if you recompiled pam after |
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> glibc upgrade) since it uses dlopen() which isn't catched by |
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> revdep-rebuild. Safest is to recompile the toolchain, then system, then |
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> world, but that could take a long time. |
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> Kerwin. |
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When glibc comes with @world updates, emerge usually merges glibc |
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first and then the rest. |
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Ugh, I'd run the update command inside tmux and this issue caused me |
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not to check tmux after update. Running dispatch-conf fixed it, |
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thanks. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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