This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > 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 Where did you get the gdm2 package? I don't even see it in experimental yet. If you got sources from somewhere else, try (totally untested - maybe write to maintainer first?) changing the version dependency on PAM to the sid version. IIRC, I got the sources and compiled to .deb locally some months ago, and had no problem running against the PAM from unstable, but I didn't have to do any hacking on debian/control, either - the dependencies were fine as is. Sadly, I uninstalled and dumped the .deb, otherwise I could just send it to you. Good luck, Steve -- Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.
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