Bug 37768 – Login failed while trying to login into the new and fresh installed system

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Meder Bakirov 2004-01-10 00:35:41 UTC]

After install of Gentoo Linux I rebooted.

When I enter "root" at the username login promt and press "Enter" I get this error:

login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immidiate abort

So, I cannot login into the system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter "root" or any other username at the username login promt
2.Press "Enter"
3.

Actual Results:  
I got this message: 

login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort


Here is log messages from tty12, related to this problem:

Jan 10 07:33:16 netmon login[15115]: PAM _pam_init_handlers: no default config
/etc/pam.d/other
Jan 10 07:33:16 netmon login[15115]: PAM error reading PAM configuration file
Jan 10 07:33:16 netmon login[15115]: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize handlers
Jan 10 07:33:16 netmon login[15115]: Couldn't initialize PAM: Critical error -
immediate abort

[Comment 1 Meder Bakirov 2004-01-10 00:42:46 UTC]

I have also ls'ed /etc/pam.d (booted from LiveCD and mounted all partitions)

It seems, that it misses some files there: login, other, passwd, shadow, etc.

The only file in /etc/pam.d is sshd

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 12:08:08 UTC]

can you still reproduce that with the latest livecd?

[Comment 3 Meder Bakirov 2004-03-15 22:22:29 UTC]

No, it's gone! :)