On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 16:04 -0400, Bud Rozwood wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For some reason I can't login today and I am not sure why. The prompt > > for username and password comes up but when I type in my username and > > press enter, it occasionally prints something on the screen but it's > > too fast to read and returns me back to prompt. My /etc/issue is set > > to clear and print the date, but I don't think it has something to do > > with that. > > > > > > So it doesn't even ask for password, does it? Means it is not a > permission problem. There are several possibilities, of which two > follows: > - disk full: go back to host, and test that. > - login somehow not working. One way to see the error message is to go > back to host, mount the virtual fs, chroot as told in "Cleaning up" at > the end of chapter 6, and entering "login <username>". > > Note that the second test could tell you about the first possible > issue... > > Pierre > > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Do not top post on this list. > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > Never mind, I figured it out. While rebuilding Linux PAM, I accidentally left in the line 'rm -fv /etc/pam.d/' in my build script, which was only supposed to be done when first installing it. Removing that line and then reinstalling it followed by reinstalling Shadow fixed it. -- Bud Rozwood
-- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
