> Since today i cannot login anymore. > > When i try to login via X/KDE Login Screen, the x server crashes while > KDE is loading. When i try to log in via a text console, the system > behaves very strange. I enter my login-name, press enter, awaiting the > loginmanager aks for my password, but this doesn't happen. After > entering my username and pressing enter, it says "login incorrect" > without asking for a password. > > I don't think that i changed anything important since the last reboot, > but maybe i just can't remember. I also checked the logfiles, but > found nothing interesting in it... > > I re-emerged (after playing aroung with the gentoo live cd to get the > sources) pam and pam-login, but nothing happened. > > Has anyone any idea, what causes this strange behaviour and what can > be done to solve this problem?
Some package (don't know which) has an invalid update for /etc/pam.d/login and to get rid of the problem you just have to reemerge shadow and update the specified config-file. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371]
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