passwd does not work after f8 -> f9 upgrade

[Izhar Firdaus]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Jarosław Górny <jaroslav at aster.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've searched BZ, but not found anything similar.
> Couple of days ago I've upgraded to f9 with plain old "yum update". The
> process went smoothly, but now I'm not able to use passwd. Any try to change
> password (directly as a user, or as a root) fails:
>
> <code>
> [root at moonstone cracklib]# LANG=C passwd testowy
> Changing password for user testowy.
> New UNIX password:
> /usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict: error reading header
> PWOpen: Success
> </code>
>
> appropriate fragment of strace looks like this:
>
> <code>
> write(2, "New UNIX password: ", 19)     = 19
> read(0, "lame_password\n", 511)         = 14
> ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
> write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwd", O_RDONLY) = 4
> open("/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwi", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.hwm", O_RDONLY) = 6
> fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0xb80d9000
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> write(2, "/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict: err"..., 50) = 50
> close(5)                                = 0
> munmap(0xb80d9000, 4096)                = 0
> close(4)                                = 0
> close(6)                                = 0
> write(2, "PWOpen: Success\n", 16)       = 16
> exit_group(-1)                          = ?
> </code>
>
>
> If this should be reported in BZ, I'll do it. Any tips to solve this really
> appreciated. Thanks,
>
> regards,


sounds like a broken file to me,

try:

rpm -V cracklib-dicts

and see whether theres any broken files from that package.

you may want to run package-cleanup --problems just in case somehow
happened missing dependencies ..


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