I tried booting from the liveCD and chrooting into the system on disk. That worked. Then I tried to change the password of my user and rebooting. No dice.
We're going to have to find the pam packages that were upgraded, and revert them. Unfortunately, I have little knowledge of apt/dpkg. Basically.... boot from live cd open terminal sudo su - root mkdir /mnt/chroot mount /dev/XXX /mnt/chroot (where XXX is your linux partition) chroot /mnt/chroot /bin/bash apt-get --something-here-to-revert-pam If you can figure out the last step, props to you. Welcome to the world of Alpha releases. Frank -- intrepid latest update authentication failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259867 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
