Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:41:19
Message-Id: 20060605163324.2953e9b9@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed by Daniel da Veiga
1 On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:53:07 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
2
3 > > That would only be true if he had unmerged pam-login before running
4 > > emerge world. Portage doesn't unmerge blockers itself.
5
6 > I didn't say he or portage unmerged it, I said he got caught in the
7 > conflict.
8
9 Withoput unmerging it, the new shadow would not be merged, so that
10 particular problem could not occur.
11
12 > May be a config file update pending or maybe it was just in
13 > the middle of the merge when the outage occured, either way the
14 > commands would solve it or not?!
15 >
16 > And, of course, portage would stop and thus not do anything, so, I
17 > assume he may have unmerged pam-login in order for the emerge -uD
18 > world even start...
19
20 I had assumed that anyone reporting a login problem would mention that
21 they had just removed the pam-login package, which only goes to show that
22 neither of us should make guesses as to what someone else has done :)
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26 Neil Bothwick
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28 If weather bureaus were honest, they would call themselves non prophet
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