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From: Andreas Fink <finkandreas@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:27:51
Message-Id: 0MOzwh-1jrEsA1EBz-006LGd@smtp.web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64 by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:51:13 +0100
2 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 09:29:39 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:
6 > > > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to
7 > > > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0.
8 > > > The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in
9 > > > sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my
10 > > > system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is
11 > > > broken and does not allow any new login.
12 > > > The end result is that sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 was successfully merged but
13 > > > sys-auth/pambase will not be merged, due to a build failure in passwdqc.
14 > > > Disabling the USE flag passwdqc for pambase allows an update to pambase
15 > > > too, and logins work again.
16 > > > This is a warning to anyone out there who updates daily and runs an
17 > > > ~amd64.
18 > >
19 > > Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before emerging
20 > > @world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three systems I
21 > > tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM before
22 > > terminating the existing session.
23 >
24 > MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge -1 passwdqc worked here. Sys-libs/pam had already
25 > installed by the time passwdqc failed the first time. Sys-auth/pam is not in my
26 > update list, but sys-auth/pambase is, and has installed without protest.
27 >
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29 Either USE="-passwdqc" for pambase or MAKEOPTS="-j1" for passwdqc works
30 consistently for me too. I think you just need to make sure that
31 pam+pambase are both updated before logging out ;)
32 One system that I had to rescue from a live system + chroot :(

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Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>