> At some point (unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly when it started) I > stopped being able to log in with a text console. I can log in fine > through gdm's graphical login, but if I boot into text-mode I can't > log in, and I can't log into virtual consoles. > > What happens is when I type my username, it tells me "Login incorrect" > without even letting me type my password. It does this to both root > and my normal user. > > I was using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", so I tried commenting that out in > my make.conf and ran "emerge -u system" to downgrade all system > packages to stable versions, but that hasn't fixed the problem. Any > help would be appreciated.
I've got no idea which package is responsible but for some reason /etc/pam.d/login got all screwed up for me with the same symptom you described. Just reemerge shadow and update /etc/pamd.d/login and all should be fine again. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371]
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