Package: pam Severity: normal Steve Langasek wrote: > More to the point, the error message corresponds to one of the finite set of > error codes defined in /usr/include/security/_pam_types.h. You can suggest > a different one if you think one of those would be more useful in this case, > but there's no "filesystem read only" error that the PAM module could > return, and extending the list of return values would require a lot of > upstream coordination since these are all part of one or more PAM specs.
OK, so not just a missing call to perror or strerror like I'd hoped. However, even with these limitations I think the error message could have a hint at the possible cause: "Authentication token lock busy or not writable", or something similar to that. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
