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On 6/5/06, Richard Watson <waty@×××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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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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You got caught on the pam-login/shadow conflict and now you have no |
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one to accomplish your authentication. |
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Try starting in Interactive Mode ("I" at the start) and go till the |
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"local" service, fall to a command prompt, you'll be asked for your |
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root password, give it and you'll be at an almost complete system, so: |
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emerge -C pam-login && emerge shadow |
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etc-update |
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And you may correct the problem. I don't see a relevant reason for a |
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LiveCD boot or chroot, as long as your system still boots ;) |
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