Re: Can't login on text console

From: rowan[canspam] (_at_rownetco.com)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:01:32 GMT

kalev- wrote:

> rowan[canspam] wrote:
>
>
>>I had installed SuSE Pro 9.0 on a system I built using an Intel PR440FX
>>dual
>>Pentium Pro system board. The system has run flawlessly since November.
>>The
>>other day I powered it up booting into the GUI as usual. While waiting
>>for the GUI to load everything after entering my ID/Password I CTRL-ALT-F1
>>to a text
>>console and tried logging in as root to check the syntax of iwpriv. At
>>the login prompt i entered root<enter> but no password prompt, just an
>>immediate
>>"Login incorrect", screen clears and back to a login prompt. I tried all
>>non
>>privileged accounts, same result. I have another machine, a Fujitsu 6631C
>>laptop also with SuSE Pro 9.0, I can login to the text consoles on that
>>without
>>a problem. Fortunately I can login via the GUI. Can someone point me in
>>the general direction where I would look to examine some .conf which is
>>preventing any ID from logging via a text based console?
>
>
>
> check your /var/log/messages
> ..see what it says
> jk
>
/var/log/messages records the following every time I try to login on text consoles:

Apr 9 10:58:53 Geeks login[1944]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_nam.so.0)
Apr 9 10:58:53 Geeks login[1944]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_nam.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Apr 9 10:58:53 Geeks login[1944]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_nam.so.0
Apr 9 10:58:53 Geeks login[1944]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/tty1 FOR root,
Permission denied
Apr 9 10:58:57 Geeks login[3832]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_nam.so.0)
Apr 9 10:58:57 Geeks login[3832]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_nam.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

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