On Sat, Apr 21 2012, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 21.04.2012 17:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> There is a bug filed >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412721 >> >> Am I correct in believing the safe procedure is to add >> >>> =sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r2 =sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5. >> >> to /etc/portage/package.mask (or a file in that directory)? >> > I actually used cfg-update -u on 3 different machines up to now. > So cfg-update can't be at the core of that problem. > Maybe it's some kind of race-condition or the bug depends on other > things too (e.g.: I'm using gnome and gdm also puts some files to > /etc/pam.d which maybe mitigate the issue somehow) - pure speculation, > though.
Thanks. I also use gnome (-3) and gdm on all machines and this might explain why my secondary machine survived the update. However, there are doubtless many users and developers running KDE and the bug has no mention of them being unable to run after etc-update and friends (unless the damage is so great they can't add to the bug :-( ). My secondary laptop has the "dangerous" versions installed and has been successfully rebooted and logged in to. I am taking a more cautious approach on my primary laptop and masking >=sys-auth/pambase-20120417 >=sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 until the smoke clears. allan
