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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Not able to login as root after update
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:50:12
Message-Id: CAPo3noYDo7fC4wC-HQi73NVRpNEDSychKFf3PN2hWizOo4YZiw@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2
3 There's some weird problem that has cropped up after update yesterday.
4 I'm not able to login as root on the tty nor as su -l and neither
5 using sudo su -l. Thankfully I had sudo, so I can get root by sudo -i,
6 or else it would've been a complete disaster.
7
8 The packages which were upgraded yesterday which can be causing this
9 is pambase, shadow and glibc.
10
11 Anybody has idea how to fix this?
12
13 (PS: I know very well that logging in as root is a bad practice and I
14 never do that, I just use su -l, so no flames please).
15
16 --
17 Nilesh Govindarajan
18 http://nileshgr.com

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