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Richard Watson wrote on 05/06/06 10:34: |
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> Hi all - I was running emerge --update --deep --newuse world over the |
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> weekend when I had a power outage and my computer crashed. For some reason |
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> ever since then I cannot login. If I enter Root at the login prompt the |
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> computer thinks about it and then just returns to the login prompt. |
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> Obviously something has gone wrong with my authentication and I'm just |
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> wondering whether anyone can give me guidance on how to fix this. |
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> I was able to boot from the Gentoo Stage 1 Livecd and chroot into my system |
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> but resetting the password with passwd didn't work. I suspect I need to |
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> emerge the relevant modules again but don't know which ones. |
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> Any help would be really appreciated, thanks. Richard |
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I guess you've been bitten by the conflict between pam-login and shadow. |
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You need to unmerge pam-login, then emerge shadow. |
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emerge -C pam-login && emerge -u shadow |
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HTH, cheers, Dave |
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