On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:04, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > > I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to > > point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes I know > > this is to be expected :) and now my GDM logins are broken. I keep > > getting a Authentication Error when I try to log in with any user. > > /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/passwd were changed during the update, > > but I've tried rolling back the changes with no success. Any > > suggestions on what to start checking? (I know this is sparse on > > details but I don't know where to find any more details. Any pointers > > are appreciated.) > > > > -Alex > > It sounds like you installed the pam from experimental as well. You > don't need it, so dump it. Download the pam modules from your regular > distribution (sid, I'm guessing), and install with dpkg -i (maybe > --force-downgrade as well). There is a bunch of pam stuff in > experimental, and from the talk on -devel, it's not so stable. Unfortunately I'm using gdm2 which depends on libpam0g >= 0.75. Sid currently has 0.72-35. Is there some way to roll back to the version that USED to be in experimental? (Or at least some version after 0.75 since Sid is still as 0.72?) TIA. -Alex
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