I think my biggest problem with this is the segmentation fault I get every time I try to use the 'passwd' or 'su' commands. Does anybody know if this is caused by PAM, or are these commands corrupted? If I need to replace them, how do I go about doing this?
Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
