Bug#513585: kdm: Login fails due to missing pam upgrade
Package: kdm
Version: 4.2.0-1
Severity: normal
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When login into my shiny new KDE 4.2 kdm I got an error telling me that the
login failed and a log has been written to /var/log/kdm.log
As it turned out the information in /var/log/kdm.log was rather useless except
it's comment to also check the daemon.log file.
In /var/log/daemon.log I found:
Jan 29 19:22:07 deepThought kdm_greet[1322]: Cannot open default user face
Jan 29 19:30:58 deepThought kdm: :0[1316]: PAM error: Bad item passed to
pam_*_item()
Jan 29 19:31:12 deepThought kdm: :0[1316]: PAM error: Bad item passed to
pam_*_item()
I updated 3 PAM related packages and since I can login again. The 3 updates:
libpam-modules: 1.0.1-4 -> 1.0.1-5
libpam-runtime: 0.76-22 -> 1.0.1-5
libpam0g: 0.99.7.1-6 -> 1.0.1-5
Possibly there should be package dependency on at least 1 of these 3 packages
in order to prevent that problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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