locked out of my gentoo pc

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Belgium

I wanted to run an "emerge --update system" and found out that 2 packages were blocking each other: pam-login and shadow.

Since I had some "problems" using pam-login when using ssh to my other pc (after I emerged ssh) I tought this might have been the problem. As I removed pam-login from the ssh config, I tought I didn't need it anymore so I ran "emerge --unmerge pam-login". That was yesterday...

Okay, so you can pick yourselves up from the floor and stop laughing. To cut it short, I cannot login to the pc anymore.

Is it enough to boot with the live-cd, chroot into the setup and there run "emerge pam-login" to get it working again, or is there more involved? I would like to be more or less certain what to do before tackling this mess.
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yabbadabbadont · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

Booting the live cd and re-emerging pam-login should do it.

Don't feel too bad. When I was learing Unix (SCO, boo!) many years ago, I once issued the following command at work:

#rm -rf /u4/custom/* bank538

Notice the space between "*" and "bank538". They didn't have a backup policy in place at that time either. I figured I was a goner after just two months on the job. Turns out that the guy who was mentoring me had made a full backup the night before. He said that he just had a feeling... In later years, he pulled a lot of crap, but I always cut him some slack since he had saved my ass.

Live and learn.
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troymc · Guru Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 553

Actually, you want to emerge shadow.

It is the package that is replacing pam-login, that is why they were conflicting.

troymc

valkyrite · Apprentice Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 241

But you still require pam-login to log inside the system. Correct me if I am wrong.
unmerge pam-login, emerge shadow, reemerge pam-login.

Use a livecd and chroot to your actual gentoo environment.

ali3nx · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Belgium

Everything ok now. I had a suse partition on the pc and used that instead of a live-cd (couldn't find it). Emerged shadow and with a pass of etc-update I'm back in business.

Thanks!
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nixnut · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
See here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443022.html
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