On Sunday, 19 October 2025 05:14:16 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > Each of my systems has a small secondary system alongside it, which I call a > Rescue system. These days, I only use it to make a weekly backup of the > main system to USB disk. > > The attached photo shows what has been happening recently on logging on to > the rescue system on this box, the i5 NUC I mentioned recently. I can't > imagine what might be causing this. It's easily escaped by logging in > again, which works as it should. > > Any ideas on debugging this weirdness?
/Probably/ it is something to do with pam. If you've updated it recently there were some changes in its files. Run dispatch-conf, etc-update, or your favourite configuration updating tool to examine and accept the changes introduced by the latest update.
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