What is causing the segmentation fault?
I think my biggest problem with this is the segmentation fault I get every time I try
to use the 'passwd' or 'su' commands. Does anybody know if this is caused by PAM, or
are these commands corrupted? If I need to replace them, how do I go about doing
this?
Doug
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Hello & Help!
>
> I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago...
>
> I used dselect to select a package and it wanted to upgrade a bunch on
> stuff. I let it because I was interested to see how long it would take
> with my new DSL connection.
>
> 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'.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Doug
>
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