Bug#165915: libc6: Upgrade may break kdm?
At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:48:29 -0400,
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.1-3
> Severity: normal
>
> I'm not sure that this is related to libc6 rather than, say, pam.
> Someone should confirm this.
>
> I recently upgraded libc6 remotely on a system which uses kdm as
> its login manager. After the upgrade, I was unable to log in from kdm,
> although ssh and text-mode console logins still worked.
>
> In the log were these messages:
> Oct 22 12:39:18 blargenaut kde(pam_unix)[1022]: check pass; user unknown
> Oct 22 12:39:18 blargenaut kde(pam_unix)[1022]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=
> Oct 22 12:39:21 blargenaut kde(pam_unix)[1022]: check pass; user unknown
> Oct 22 12:39:45 blargenaut last message repeated 8 times
>
> Unfortunately, I upgraded pam and libc6 simultaneously, so I don't
> know which one is the culprit (or whether both together are, or whether
> the problem is from some other piece of software entirely)
>
> [UPGRADE] libc6 2.2.5-15 -> 2.3.1-3
> [UPGRADE] libpam-modules 0.76-5 -> 0.76-7
> [UPGRADE] libpam-runtime 0.76-5 -> 0.76-7
> [UPGRADE] libpam0g 0.76-5 -> 0.76-7
Hmm, is this bug still alive in the current sid 2.3.1-14?
And could you clear which package affects?
Regards,
-- gotom
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