On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:17:45 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > There's some weird problem that has cropped up after update yesterday. > I'm not able to login as root on the tty nor as su -l and neither > using sudo su -l. Thankfully I had sudo, so I can get root by sudo -i, > or else it would've been a complete disaster. > > The packages which were upgraded yesterday which can be causing this > is pambase, shadow and glibc. > > Anybody has idea how to fix this? > > (PS: I know very well that logging in as root is a bad practice and I > never do that, I just use su -l, so no flames please). > If you mean shadow-4.1.5-r1 and pambase-20120417, read the previous pambase/shadow warning thread from 3 days ago, or bug #412721, or you can read it on phajdan.jr's blog http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2012/04/watch-out-for-shadow-415-r1-and-pambase.html Anyway, if you upgrade glibc, you must recompile pam afterwards manually (sorry it wasn't clear if you recompiled pam after glibc upgrade) since it uses dlopen() which isn't catched by revdep-rebuild. Safest is to recompile the toolchain, then system, then world, but that could take a long time. Kerwin.
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