On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello & Help! > > I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... > > 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'. The x indicates shadow passwords (you can't read 'em so don't try). I've seen this "admin" user mentioned a few times, but I don't have it...??
> > 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 Apparently there's a PAM issue.... > > 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. Perhaps, for safety (until you can fix this problem) remove root's password from /etc/passwd. I'm assuming no one else is using, having access to this account? Sorry, can't help ya more, but maybe you can list all of the pam related packages you have: $ dpkg -S pam may give an idea. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
