Re: etch: can no longer login

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:27:08 -0700
"David E. Fox" <dfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


dfox@m206-157:~$ sudo unmount /dev/hdd
sudo: pam_authenticate: Module is unknown

This just happened very recently.

hate replying to myself, but need some help. due to some other
broken-ness, had to reboot. when I got to a console prompt I could not
login. Got halfway working with a chroot off of a knoppix disk, but
there are a couple of gotchas still - and I really don't know how to
fix it.

Anyone else having issues along this line? I just did an aptitude
update & aptitude upgrade earlier today - and then also was trying to
install new kde components (libqt4-dev & friends, which then brought
in a whole slew of previously held back kde -related things) but that
in and of itself is not relevant to my current problem.


And if I try logging on on a VC, it just says "login incorrect"

I have a root shell opened so I can wait I guess until something gets
fixed - as long as this box doesn't go down and I have then to boot it
up with a knoppix or something :()

"New shell" in kde works, but not "New Root Shell" - likely because in
the former I'm not relogging in, just spawning another instance of bash
running under konsole.

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