[Solved]Automatic login failure after emerge -uD world

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DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:35 am

I did a fresh install on my laptop yesterday and ran an emerge -uD world today. Now, when I try to su or even login after booting (silly me, thought rebooting would help) after I put in my username and hit enter, it just says 'Login incorrect' before it even asks for a password... I have a Ubuntu partition I can boot to to try to fix this, but what do I even do? How does this even happen?

Sorry, I don't know what category this would belong to, so I just put it here... I'm sure it'll get moved where it belongs.

DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:30 am

Perhaps I should clarify so that people don't just think I'm not reading the faq...

I can't login at all, not as root not as anything. When it prompts me for a user name, as soon as I enter the username, it says "Login Incorrect" and resets to the username prompt without even asking for a password.

DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:51 am

So since nobody wants to help, trial and error it is.

I've looked at some threads with problems SIMILAR to mine, but none of them are the same. Most involve etc-update which I did not run. I use dispatch-conf anyway.

So I chrooted into the environment, and when I typed passwd, here's what i got:

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dutchman / # passwd
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

I'm doing an emerge sync right now, hopefully there will be a pam or baselayout update that i can install and see if that makes things better. I'll also be looking up what that error means.

DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:04 am

Well, emerge --sync revealed nothing but a perl update, but

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emerge pam shadow

fixed the issue. I'm now booted into my gentoo install, thank god, without having to reinstall.

Post by **pjp** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:20 am

Moved from Off The Wall