[gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Richard Watson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Dave Jones
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

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 18:34:30 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: 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. After chrooting, do emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:14:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hi all - I was running emerge --update --deep --newuse world over the weekend when I had a power outage and my computer crashed. You got caught on the pam-login/shadow conflict and now you have no one to accomplish your

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:53:07 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: That would only be true if he had unmerged pam-login before running emerge world. Portage doesn't unmerge blockers itself. I didn't say he or portage unmerged it, I said he got caught in the conflict. Withoput unmerging it, the new