Aquila wrote:
You should read the other mails on this list.
Anyway you need to boot into single-user mode (append "s" after your
image name at lilo prompt), download the libpam*.deb packages from
http://incoming.debian.org and install them, then reboot.
It's no longer in incoming; but it should be on the mirrors now, so a
normal "apt-get update"/"apt-get upgrade" should solve the problem
(after rebooting into single-user mode (ie "linux s" at the "boot:"
prompt), which will let you log in as root even though PAM is broken).
On 27 Jun 2001 04:07:57 -0700, OSU wrote:
hi,
I am using kernel 2.4.5 with unstable, and was playing around installing
new software . But in the process I logged off to take a break and was not
able to log
back in . I can not login as root or myself . Even before I am able to type
the password I get the error " loging incorrect" . I am able to login as
root ( with the
correct passwd ) if I boot in single user mode. However in this case I can
not "su" to any other user or even root . "su" gives the error " su:
Modules is unknown " . Based on what i found on the web I tried the
following but none worked :
1) ran ldconfig
2) ran update-modules
3) Mercylessly deleted all pam related packages except those in "required
base" which I reinstalled .
4) Tried "adduser" but it failed with "passwd" giving the same error
"Module is unknown"
How can I reverse these changes and/or find what package is causing the
problem ?
thanking you
b thomas
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