pam-login and shadow: unemerging of pam-login doesn't work

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therisen · Post by **therisen** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:25 pm

Hi there,

after upgrading my gcc i tried to update my world. The following message appeared:

[blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)

So I had a look on the internet and found the actual solution:

emerge -c pam-login && emerge -u shadow

emerge answers:

>>> clean: No packages selected for removal.

So what? I also tried "emerge -c sys-apps/pam-login" without any success.

Finally I did a search for the two packages on my system:

Searching... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..
[ Results for search key : pam-login ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* sys-apps/pam-login
Latest version available: 4.0.14
Latest version installed: 3.17
Size of downloaded files: 3,653 kB
Homepage: http://shadow.pld.org.pl/
Description: Login, lastlog and faillog for PAM based systems
License: GPL-2

Searching... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..
[ Results for search key : shadow ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* dev-perl/ShadowHash
Latest version available: 0.07
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 9 kB
Homepage: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/ ... .07.readme
Description: Merge multiple data sources into a hash
License: || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

* sys-apps/shadow
Latest version available: 4.0.15-r2
Latest version installed: 4.0.7-r4
Size of downloaded files: 3,793 kB
Homepage: http://shadow.pld.org.pl/
Description: Utilities to deal with user accounts
License: BSD

What am I supposed to do? I feel ashamed

Thanks.

usurpah · Post by **usurpah** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:34 pm

I thought to unmerge it was "emerge -C", not "emerge -c". Lowercase c is "clean", I believe.

1clue · Post by **1clue** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:38 pm

I ran into this too, but I'm a bit confused as to the best approach. I thought pam-login was preferable to shadow. The changelog documentation is a bit unclear. Anyone give an opinion on that, or a place to get a human-based description of which is supposed to take over?

Proteus · Post by **Proteus** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:51 pm

Try to use

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emerge unmerge pam-login

Then just emerge world and just to be in the safe side run revdep-rebuild.
Hope this helps.

The Ennead · Post by **The Ennead** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:18 pm

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443022.html

Scroll down to the first post by ecatmur.

That worked for me a couple of months ago and so I see no reason it shouldn't do this time as well but I won't be rebooting until tomorrow morning.

emerge --buildpkgonly --nodeps shadow && emerge -C pam-login && emerge --usepkgonly shadow

for anyone that can't click

1clue · Post by **1clue** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:44 pm

Ennead,

The critical text was in there, that I missed in the changelog: PAM is merging with shadow.

Thanks.

dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:22 am

Proteus wrote:Try to use
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emerge unmerge pam-login
Then just emerge world and just to be in the safe side run revdep-rebuild.
Hope this helps.

I did this on a spare machine and it killed my ability to su - root or sudo. I rebooted and authentication fails when I attempt to login with any account, so I'm completely locked out of my system. No, it's not your fault Proteus. I did it before reading your post, so unfortunately I can't blame you.

I guess my next option will be to boot off of the Gentoo Live! CD, chown into my system, and re-emerge pam-login or convert to shadow.

turtles · Post by **turtles** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:18 am

I am contemplating updating world again (whch I do as little as possible because of issues like this) and have the same

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 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)

as my only blocker for now, which is better than the 25 or so I had last time.
I need very specific tested clarification as to the correct non system breaking aproach here since the last post is a broken (spare) system.
cheers to all

RazielFMX · Post by **RazielFMX** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:24 am

I have the same issue, which did not exist until I ran a emerge-websync --sync...

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smbox ~ # emerge --newuse --update --deep --pretend world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/tiff-3.8.2 [3.7.4] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2 [4.0.14-r1] 
[ebuild     UD] app-text/poppler-0.5.1-r1 [0.5.2] 
[ebuild   R   ] app-editors/gvim-6.4  
[ebuild   R   ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3  
[ebuild   R   ] x11-misc/xlockmore-5.17-r1  
[ebuild     UD] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.1-r1 [0.5.2]

mbeher · Post by **mbeher** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:32 am

I'm getting the same error. I just synced portage, and tried to update world. Is portage broken?

RazielFMX · Post by **RazielFMX** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:47 am

I just resynched to the most recent snapshot (websynch, behind a firewall and cant runt he usual synch) 20050531, and I still get the error...

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:18 am

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443022.html