Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hello! > > As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package > > 'libpam-runtime' > > > > -- Thomas Adam > > My problem persists after "dpkg -i libpam-runtime_0.76-22_all.deb". > This deb (unstable) version should be the same as that was installed in > my another running hardware as I f

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
> As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package > 'libpam-runtime' > > -- Thomas Adam My problem persists after "dpkg -i libpam-runtime_0.76-22_all.deb". This deb (unstable) version should be the same as that was installed in my another running hardware as I ftped it from its /var/ca

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hi! Thomas, > More likely this is a PAM misconfiguration. A persual of /etc/pam.d/su > should help determine this. > I have just did cmp the two su files from the running box and the problematic one. They are identical and the effective lines follows: auth sufficient pam_rootok.so @includ

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- CN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! Ricky, > > I have successfully booted to single user mode and installed strace and > have acquired the following excerpt of its output. Someone please > interpret it for me? As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package 'libpam-runtime' -- Th

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hi! Ricky, I have successfully booted to single user mode and installed strace and have acquired the following excerpt of its output. Someone please interpret it for me? Regards, CN = [snip] time([1089177704]) = 1089177704 getpid()

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know much of the way things work here, but you can probably use: > > strace -o sulog.txt su - More likely this is a PAM misconfiguration. A persual of /etc/pam.d/su should help determine this. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mech

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread Ricky Clarkson
I don't know much of the way things work here, but you can probably use: strace -o sulog.txt su - [the final - is optional - man su] Then read sulog.txt, it might give a clue as to what it was trying to do. strace is in the strace package - if you can't install because you're not root you can p

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hello! Simon, Thank you for the prompt help! I double checked my box and confirmed that these files/lines do exist. By the way, the exact error message from "su" is su: Module is unknown Sorry. and login from other boxes or system console (not xterm) to localhost yields error: System boot up i

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 19:11, CN wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed woody in 3 boxes. Suddently I can't login to one of > them. > I am not sure if this problem has to do with the upgrade of wine package > (version 20040615). > > Now I have only 2 ways to access this problematic box: > (1) using boo

Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hi! I have installed woody in 3 boxes. Suddently I can't login to one of them. I am not sure if this problem has to do with the upgrade of wine package (version 20040615). Now I have only 2 ways to access this problematic box: (1) using boot floppy disks (2) starting X by sudo in startup script a