On 6/5/06, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all - I was running emerge --update --deep --newuse world over the
weekend when I had a power outage and my computer crashed. For some reason
ever since then I cannot login. If I enter Root at the login prompt the
computer thinks about it and then just returns to the login prompt.
Obviously something has gone wrong with my authentication and I'm just
wondering whether anyone can give me guidance on how to fix this.
I was able to boot from the Gentoo Stage 1 Livecd and chroot into my system
but resetting the password with passwd didn't work. I suspect I need to
emerge the relevant modules again but don't know which ones.
Any help would be really appreciated, thanks. Richard
You got caught on the pam-login/shadow conflict and now you have no
one to accomplish your authentication.
Try starting in Interactive Mode ("I" at the start) and go till the
"local" service, fall to a command prompt, you'll be asked for your
root password, give it and you'll be at an almost complete system, so:
emerge -C pam-login && emerge shadow
etc-update
And you may correct the problem. I don't see a relevant reason for a
LiveCD boot or chroot, as long as your system still boots ;)
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