can't login anymore

kalkin · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 4

Hi everyone,

I have a strange problem on more gentoo boxes : all the services that require some kind of authentification are dead and I cannot login at the console. I see no error in the logs ( I have the logs on tty12 ) and the login prompt won't work. If I reboot the box, and start it in init 1 everything seems okay. The error occur sometimes after 2 hours uptime and sometimes after 10 days. On another 5 machines I have, there is no problem at all, and I had never any kind of problems. I don't get it.
Is there anyone out there with the same problem, or anyone with a solution ? The same error occur on 3 different boxes with different hardware and they were installed in the last month, but not at the same time.
I'm pretty desperate, please help !

delta407 · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:16 pm Post subject:

Maybe your PAM is dead...? "emerge pam" would rebuild it... hmm...

What are your optimization settings?
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kalkin · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 4

The optimization settings are set like this:
# Pentium Pro/Pentium II/Pentium III+/Pentium 4/Athlon exclusive (binaries
# will use the P6 instruction set and only run on P6+ systems)
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
USE="-X -gtk -qt -kde -arts -java -motif -tcltk -gpm -gnome acl"
PAM was my first supposition as well. I reemerge it more times, but if it is a PAM problem, then I won't be able to login in init 1 either. So I guess it's something else. Don't know what... But I know that PAM is not.
Thanks for your replay, anyway. If you got any other ideas, please write again.

ste · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject: Same problem (but no solution)

I've got exactly the same problem. Just after booting, all work perfectly, but after a few hours, I can't even login. I don't know if it's related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4334, but I haven't found anything else about this problem.

The strange thing is that it's seems to happen at a random time after booting. I also checked my cron jobs, but there isn't a lot of thinks there.

fsck_ms · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 5:59 pm Post subject:

That happened to me once, during an emerge system. I didn't bother to fix it, and simply reinstalled a few days later. I wonder if maybe booting from the install disc and running passwd would work.
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kalkin · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 4

No, this can't have anything to do with the bug #4334 because I cannot login directly on the console. By the way, I'm using the standart kernel, nothing experimental in it, so this cannot be the issue.Some kind of process race, eating up all the processor resources... it might be. Who knows.