Re: Update this morning killed local login.
At 09:53 AM 3/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:46:37AM -0500, Todd
Suess wrote:
>
> Greets ppl,
>
> I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no
longer
> log in to the console. I had just rebooted after the update,
and was watching
> the kernel boot messages, when I saw something strange pop up.
It was similar
> to the following (going from memory)
>
> Checking for valid XFree86 configuration file.....unable to
check!
> Not starting KDM Windows Manager
>
> I then got a normal non X login console screen, but no matter
what
> username and password I use, I get invalid login.
>
> Luckily my machine is on a cable network and I was able to ssh
in
> from work, so the machine is accepting remote passwords, just
not
> console logins. Since I am sshing in I have not tried starting
X remotely
> yet, wanted to see if anyone had any ideas before I muck around too
much.
>
> One thing I did notice was that the Login package was updated in the
update
> this morning, and it was right after that that things stopped
working.
Can you be more specific as to the problem, as in what messages come
up
when you type in your username and password?
Also try typing in your password on the username line to make sure it
is
coming up as it should. It is a known issues that kbd is for some
reason
setting up systems as azerty keyboard instead of qwerty, like it
should.
Ben
When I enter a known valid username and password at the console, I get
about
a 10 second pause, and then invalid login. The relevant lines from
auth.log look
something like this.
Mar 2 08:06:03 blackhole PAM_unix[436]: authentication failure;
LOGIN(uid=0) -> tsuess for login service
Mar 2 08:06:07 blackhole login[436]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on `tty1' FOR
`tsuess', Authentication failure
Mar 2 08:06:15 blackhole PAM_unix[436]: authentication failure;
LOGIN(uid=0) -> root for login service
Mar 2 08:06:19 blackhole login[436]: FAILED LOGIN (2) on `tty1' FOR
`root', Authentication failure
Mar 2 08:06:42 blackhole PAM_unix[436]: authentication failure;
LOGIN(uid=0) -> todds for login service
Mar 2 08:06:45 blackhole login[436]: FAILED LOGIN (3) on `tty1' FOR
`todds', Authentication failure
Note, these are all known good passwords, and I know it's not kbd because
the keyboard types my username
correctly (I did type the password on the login line as suggested, it
looks fine.)
I am able to ssh into the machine fine, it seems to be either a pam issue
or a login issue, I suspect login
however since it was just updated.
Regards,
Todd
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