[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Andrew]

Thanks Steve. You helped me fix the problem nicely.

run pam-auth-update --force did not work for me either, but i just did
the update anyway, and received the new package. Thanks for the good
work and trouble shooting. The Ubuntu community is why i switched to
using Linux. That and the fact that I didn't like windows anymore. Been
using Ubuntu happily for almost four years now.

-Andrew
-keen101

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stephen Cradock]

thanks for the clarification, Steve. I won't try running with the copy
in /usr/share/pam/!

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Steve Langasek]

cp: cannot stat `/etc/pam.d/common-session': No such file or directory

This is a cosmetic error only, which I'll fix in the next version.

Copying /usr/share/pam/common-session to /etc/pam.d/common-session is
/not/ correct, and will also give you authentication errors.  The file
in /usr/share/pam is a template that needs to be processed by pam-auth-
update before it can be used; this is precisely what the instructions I
offered do for you.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stephen Cradock]

Mario - thanks for the pointer - those are presumably spare copies of
the working files in /etc/pam.d/

But you're right - the common-session file in the /usr/share/pam set
doesn't have the pam-deny.so line - it has pam-permit.so instead. I
checked the common-auth files in /etc/pam.d/ and /usr/share/pam/, and
they are the way common-session used to be - a line "auth requisite
pam_deny.so" and a line "auth required  pam_permit.so".

The header of the files in /usr/share/pam/ refers to pam 1.0.1-4, by the
way, while the files in /etc/pam.d/ refer to pam 1.0.1-3.

It looks as if this is a new paradigm being implemented on the wing, as
it were I'm sure we'll get it all right soon. The block labels
$session_primary and $session_additional look as if they will be new in
version 1.0.1-4.

Wonder what would happen if I tried using those versions with 1.0.1-3
installed

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Mario Vukelic]

Seconded, I'd also be happy to see what common-session is supposed to
look now, as following Steve's instructions had the same effect as for
Stephen above. I am not sure anymore whether I ended up with a good
file, and my /usr/share/pam/common-session looks slightly different from
my /etc/pam.d/common-session: the former has two more lines,
"$session_primary" and "$session_additional".

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stephen Cradock]

I've edited the common-session file, and got the updates installed. It
all works fine.

BUT - it seems to me I should be able to revert to the original common-
session file and not get the Authentification failed error. Doesn't work
that way - putting the pam_deny.so line back into common-session brings
up the Authentification failed error again.

I've tried following Steve's suggestion to remove the existing common-
session and run pam-auth-update --force, but it fails saying it can't
stat common-session - not surprising, as I removed it.

What next? Do we need the line "session requisite  pam_deny.so"
in common-session, or was redundant?

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Re: [Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Jeremy LaCroix]

Thanks, I think I got it going now. I don't remember what I was told to 
do, but it was something about "pam_allow.so" or something similar, 
sorry I lost the page.

Thanks to all, and thanks to all the developers on how great Intrepid is 
so far even with the occasional hiccup.

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> If you can run the script that I've provided at
> , this will fix the problem so
> that you can again log in and continue the upgrade.
>
> Alternatively, from a rescue session you can simply replace "pam_deny" with 
> "pam_permit" in /etc/pam.d/common-session, continue booting, then do the 
> following:
> 1) open a root shell
> 2) rm /etc/pam.d/common-session
> 3) run pam-auth-update --force
> 4) upgrade
>
> this should get you a pristine configuration with the new version of
> libpam-runtime installed.
>
>

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Steve Langasek]

Jeremy,

If you can run the script that I've provided at
, this will fix the problem so
that you can again log in and continue the upgrade.

Alternatively, from a rescue session you can simply replace "pam_deny" with 
"pam_permit" in /etc/pam.d/common-session, continue booting, then do the 
following:
1) open a root shell
2) rm /etc/pam.d/common-session
3) run pam-auth-update --force
4) upgrade

this should get you a pristine configuration with the new version of
libpam-runtime installed.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Andrew]

Just installed updates. 10:00 pm MST 08/21/08

My system keeps saying authentication failure at gdm login screen. This
practically hosed the system.

I do not understand the workarounds. My system is 32 bit pretty sure. I
really hope a fixed package is in the works, but i need to know how to
fix my system. I have a live-cd and a live USB.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have internet access in the recovery console
on mine.'

so i somehow need to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session?

what do i edit it to?

"sed -i -e'
/here.s the fallback if no module succeeds/,/prime the stack/ {
s/.*pam_deny.*/# this is obviously a completely redundant line, 
except that it lets us\
# handle better the case where there are no "Primary" modules provided\
session requiredpam_permit.so/
}' /etc/pam.d/common-session"

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Jeremy LaCroix]

I used the recovery thing and chose to have a root terminal, yet I get
no internet access from the terminal, if I try to ping something its
unable to resolve the host, so I can't seem to find a way to do an APT
upgrade.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stefano Maioli]

Well, I just copy-pasted the link..
But thanks! :)

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Matthias Metzger]

Stefano and Frank, God bless you. Thanks to you two, I got Intrepid back
to life.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Dan Andresan]

Thanks Frank,

I modified the file seen in the Stefano's script /etc/pam.d/common-
session on my harddisk, booting from the livecd.

I'll have in mind the chroot method for the future.

Thanks again,
Dan

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Dan Andresan]

Long live the Vorlon (and Stefano Maioli).
The link you indicated solved the problem, I am back in my system.

Yes...

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[russofris]

Dan,

To recover, you have 2 options..

1:  Recovery console
2:  Chroot from the loveCD (see above)

After that, it should be the normal update/upgrade process.

Steve,

thanx much for the quick turnaround.

Frank

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Dan Andresan]

russofris (Frank), I am on 32 bits. Thanks Steve for providing a quick
fix, now if only I would be able to apply it (I am logged out of my
system, although I have a LiveCD available for emergency work)

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Steve Langasek]

downgrading the packages will not help, the old packages don't know how
to roll back this change and downgrading will break the upgrade check
that's been added in the just-uploaded fixed version.

This is an architecture-independent bug, both 64-bit and 32-bit users
will have the same problem.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Steve Langasek]

This bug has been fixed in the upload of pam 1.0.1-3ubuntu2.  Changelog
is:

 pam (1.0.1-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=high
 .
   * debian/local/common-session: the session stack needs to be handled the
 same way as the password stack, with the possibility of zero primary
 modules; required to fix build failures on the Ubuntu buildds due to
 su not being able to open sessions by default.  LP: #259867.
   * debian/libpam-runtime.postinst: when upgrading from the broken
 1.0.1-2ubuntu1 version, manually edit /etc/pam.d/common-session to
 recover.

The i386 package (which is what provides libpam-runtime) is built, and
should make it into the next publisher run.

My apologies for the broken upload, it tested out fine with sudo before
I uploaded it. :/

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stefano Maioli]

Fix committed:
 [...] binary is accepted and soon to be published

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stefano Maioli]

This command will fix it:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~vorlon/meh

And the updated packages are coming anyway...

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[russofris]

Is everyone else here 64bit, or do we have some 32bit users here?

Frank

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Dan Andresan]

I am hit too.  I still have another computer where I didn't update, so
I'll try to compare the configuration files between them

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[russofris]

Hmmm..  It should be something like..

apt-get install libpam-modules=libpam-modules_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install 
libpam-modules=libpam-modules_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version 'libpam-modules_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb' for 'libpam-modules' was 
not found

Still readin and doing some head scratchin.

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[russofris]

Sweet!  It looks like I am fortunate.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -l | grep pam
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   111744 2008-07-29 03:04 
libpam0g_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   111544 2008-08-20 14:05 
libpam0g_1.0.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7916 2008-08-04 14:04 
libpam-ck-connector_0.2.10-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root28562 2008-08-07 15:05 
libpam-gnome-keyring_2.23.6-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root28874 2008-08-18 15:05 
libpam-gnome-keyring_2.23.90-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   311926 2008-07-29 03:04 
libpam-modules_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   310186 2008-08-20 14:05 
libpam-modules_1.0.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root75980 2008-07-29 03:04 
libpam-runtime_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root83354 2008-08-20 14:05 
libpam-runtime_1.0.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives#

So how does one revert to an older version via apt? (Hitting the docs
now)

Frank

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[Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

[Stefano Maioli]

** Summary changed:

- intrepid latest update authentication failed
+ [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

** Description changed:

  Just did an update of the system.
  
  Now I can not log into the GNOME. IIRC there were updates for pidgin and
  pam libraries.
+ 
+ Console and ssh don't work either.
+ PAM error message - Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

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