Pam updates break system (Was: pam changes require dovecot restart)

Deji Akingunola deji_aking at yahoo.ca
Sat Dec 17 00:08:33 UTC 2005


--- n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A pam update just rendered my entire test system
> unusable. I couldn't
> login, I couldn't get out of gnome-screensaver's
> lock, I couldn't ssh
> in, and I couldn't start up the computer in runlevel
> 3 or 5 any more.
> In the end I managed to resolve it by booting into
> runlevel 1, going
> into /var/cache/yum/development/packages and
> manually running: rpm
> -Uvh pam*.rpm
> It appears as though yum only partially updated pam,
> removing
> /lib/libpam.so.0.80 but something went seriously
> wrong before it was
> able to install the new libpam.so.
> 
> I hope that anyone else that has this problem can
> use this information
> to repair their system.
> 
Merely rebooting the system will cure your problem.

Deji


	

	
		
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