Hello & Help! I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago...
I used dselect to select a package and it wanted to upgrade a bunch on stuff. I let it because I was interested to see how long it would take with my new DSL connection. After the upgrade I have seen these problems: (It upgraded about 50M of packages). 1. I can not login to a virtual terminal. When I try I do not even get prompted for a password. I looked in my /etc/passwd file and all of the password fields are now :x: except for a user called 'admin'. 2. I tried to set a password of an account and I get a segmentation fault when I try to run passwd. 3. My x-server CTRL-ALT + F7 now has the following error message instead of a graphical login screen. su[4340] PAM (other) illegal module type: OTHER What is going on? Please help me recover my system. I currently have a single login as root where I was running dselect. I am afraid to log off because I don't want to be locked out permanently. Thanks in advance, Doug
