Bugzilla Bug 223663

Upon emerging shadow-4.1.2, I began getting this strange list of
errors:configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MAIL_CHECK_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB' (notify
administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGINS_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SU_WHEEL_ONLY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CRACKLIB_DICTPATH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_CHANGE_TRIES' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_ALWAYS_WARN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENVIRON_FILE' (notify administrator)




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge shadow-4.1.2
2. login
3. the above errors fly past, then the password prompt comes up.

Actual Results:  
The above errors show up after I type in my user name. When this began, I
looked at /var/log/portage/elog/sys-apps:shadow-4.1.2:20080526-082959.log. It
contained the following:

WARN: postinst
Running 'grpck' returned errors.  Please run it by hand, and then
run 'grpconv' afterwards!  running grpck brings the following:configuration
error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MAIL_CHECK_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB' (notify
administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGINS_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SU_WHEEL_ONLY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CRACKLIB_DICTPATH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_CHANGE_TRIES' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_ALWAYS_WARN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENVIRON_FILE' (notify administrator)
group users: no user games
delete member 'games'?

Once I noted that these errors were the same as those above, I downgraded to
shadow-4.1.1 to see if the errors went away. They did


Expected Results:  
I expected no errors

This happened on all my systems. Since I troubleshot it on this system, I will
post its emerge --info:
pappy-lap ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.5.2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.22.19
i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22.19 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 440 @ 1.86GHz
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:52:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i486-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS=""
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j256"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa ao audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr
dvdread eds encode esd fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran
gdbm gif gimp gpm gsl gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg kde
kdexdeltas kdgraphics ladspa lame ldap libg++ libsamplerate live mad midi
mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam
pcre pdcre pdf pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime readline
reflection samba sdl session slang slp sndfile spell spl sse2 ssl swat tcpd
theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vidix vorbis
wifi win32codecs wxwindows x264 x86 xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1    
emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m      
maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

This bug effects both 32 and 64 bit systems.

Blessed be!
Pappy

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223631 ***