After upgrading to pam-0.99.6.3-r1, fcron jobs fail with the following errors: Nov 13 20:27:49 bower fcron[14816]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so) Nov 13 20:27:49 bower fcron[14816]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time reference] Nov 13 20:27:49 bower fcron[14816]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so Nov 13 20:27:49 bower fcron[14816]: Could not init PAM account management for '/usr/sbin/check_system_crontabs -s 0': Module is unknown Nov 13 20:27:49 bower fcron[9237]: Could not read job pid because of closed pipe: setting it to -1 Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16026]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so) Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16026]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time reference] Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16026]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16026]: Could not init PAM account management for '/home/birder/myfetchmail': Module is unknown Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16026]: Job '/home/birder/myfetchmail' has *not* run. Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[9237]: Could not read job pid because of closed pipe: setting it to -1 Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16031]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so) Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16031]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time reference] Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16031]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16031]: Could not init PAM account management for '/usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons': Module is unknown Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[9237]: Could not read job pid because of closed pipe: setting it to -1 Nov 13 20:30:00 bower fcron[16031]: Job '/usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons' has *not* run. I've tried running revdep-rebuild (including --library with libpam.so and pam_unix.so), and also rebuilding all packages listed as depending on pam. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.iinet.com.au/linux/Gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_AU" LC_ALL="en_AU" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://136.186.1.76/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acl acpi alsa apache2 arts async bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dmi dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux libclamav libg++ lm_sensors mad maildir mikmod mmap mmx mmxext modperl mp3 mpeg mpm-worker ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection server session spamassassin spell spl sse ssl symlink tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_nvidia vim-syntax virus-scan vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
sure your rebuild included fcron ?
Restart cron, if it still doesn't work, then rebuild it.
*** Bug 155014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #3) > *** Bug 155014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** After I rebuilding vixie-cron, theses messages went away for me.
Yes, I rebuilt and restarted fcron. I also reinstalled the crontabs (e.g. systab, which appears to replace what used to go in root's crontab) - the message appeared for the new systab entries as well. After reverting to pam-0.78-r5 the problem went away.
After reinstalling pam-0.99.6.3-r1 and rebuilding dependent packages (using revdep-rebuild and those returned by "equery depends pam"), I haven't had a repeat of the messages.
