Re: console login fails

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Patrick Lesslie wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6.  
> >
> > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then
> > it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password,
> > and brings up another login prompt.
> >    
>
> Having done a bit more research, I'm upgrading "util-linux" and the
> aptly named "login" to sarge (some things were already there ;).
> However apt-get install login fails like this:
>
> ...
> Unpacking replacement login ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-12_i386.deb (--unpack):
> unable to make backup link of `./bin/login' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-12_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I'm root, and I'm not sure why this is failing.
>
> thanks,
>
> Patrick Lesslie
>
>
>  
Can you login as a different user? As root?
Are any of your partitions mounted read-only?
Have you fsck'd your partitions lately?
What are the permissions on './bin/login'?
You might try renaming /etc/pam.d/login temporarily and try that. If you 
can get in that way, your PAM login file has issues. (Make sure you have 
a valid root login somewhere else before doing this, so you can fix it.)
Suspect shadow password problems, or /etc/passwd corruption, or md5 
problems.

--
Kent