problems with a fresh G1.2 install

[Don-Slash]

emerge newbie, I had the exact same problem since last week after I did an 'emerge world' and I will tell you that it IS the /etc/login.defs update that corrected your problem.

I thought it was before when I had commented the offending lines out and the erros went away, but I was told by a friend that I should try to fix the problem another way if those lines where suppose to be there. While trying to figure it out today I:
1) ran 'etc-update' in shell
2) scrolled through the list of updates I had on my system
3) exited the menu (-1)
4) cp /etc/login.defs /etc/login.defs.original as a back up.
5) ran 'etc-update' again and went through the displayed instructions of doing a complete replace of the origional with the update.

I would like to thank <a href='http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=144774'>rac</a> for pointing me to your string here. Now we can help another newbie like ourselves.

[mangr3n]

I just did an install of Gentoo 1.2 from scratch and came looking for a solution to this same problem.

After reading all of the notes I found the answer.

Rename your /etc/._cfg0000_login.defs file to /etc/login.defs

[Yoannez]

Hi


I think this is really a bug in that were in the Gentoo 1.2 why?

Because I have two machines one is a IBM T22 Laptop and the other a dual PIII one is installed since I joined the forums and the other was installed from a gentoo 1.4RC_1 one has the file that
emerge newbie has or had (the laptop) and the other the Dual PIII the rac's one.
The laptop was upgraded from 1.2 to 1.4 RC_1 and 1.4 RC_2, and I have the login.defs problem.

Another thing is, although I have reemerged pam_login several times and even due to dispair unmerge pam_login and booted from cd to reemerge it, it didn't solved the problem.
Now after reading this just for fun I have done a

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 [etc@gandalf] # qpkg -f login.defs
[etc@gandalf] #

has you can see there is no output. This is for the laptop.


Samething in the dual :

[root@moebius] # qpkg -f /etc/login.defs 
sys-apps/pam-login *
[root@moebius] # 

So has you can see there is a diference.

I'll try to solve the problem in two ways by order:

1.st : mv /etc/login.defs /etc/login.defs.orig
emerge -u pam-login

2.nd: scp /etc/login.defs gandalf:/etc/login.defs

I'll give some news.

If anyone has any other idea post-it

[Yoannez]

Hi

The problem is solved!

How?

1.st solution did it.

I have moved the /etc/login.defs to /ec/login.defs.orig and reemerged pam-login. it created automatically a new /etc/login.defs the good one now.

I think this can be a bug with pam-login, don't you?

[MrSlayer]

Ok last night i had this problem, the issue was that i was using a non-stable version of shadow. After downgrading everything is fine.
I know its a couple of years late to solve this guys problem, but perhaps some one later on can use my experince.