Re: [ ? ] Locked out after recent dselect upgrade
Mikol Graves <mikol@vmware.com> wrote:
>Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and
>install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can
>no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user
>remotely or at the local console. In fact, at the local console the
>login fails without asking for a password.
>
>I'm pretty sure that I should be able to reboot and do something like:
>
> linux init=/bin/sh
>
>or:
>
> linux single
>
>to get root access again, but I would still be at a loss as to how I
>could correct the lockout problem.
Do so, then bring up networking manually and either downgrade to the
version of libpam-modules in testing or upgrade to the version currently
on incoming.debian.org. See recent posts to this list and
debian-devel-announce for what happened.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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