Richard Watson wrote on 05/06/06 10:34: > 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 I guess you've been bitten by the conflict between pam-login and shadow. You need to unmerge pam-login, then emerge shadow. emerge -C pam-login && emerge -u shadow HTH, cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
