Lot of files are missing in /etc/pam.d/ after a new installation of a gentoo box using the standard "Gentoo Linux/x86 Handbook" I don't know wich package should include this files pam ? pam-login ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a Gentoo box using the Gentoo Linux/x86 Handbook 2. After every installation steps: reboot 3. Try to login with a valid user (root) Actual Results: Cannot enter password because the login procedure aborted with a Critical error message about PAM Expected Results: Correctly login in without errors and warnings copying /etc/pam.d/* from another gentoo box to this one solved the problem!
you didnt mention what stage file you used this often happens when USE=pam is out of sync with certain packages ... chances are you need to re-emerge shadow to fix this
I began on stage1, I will copy paste additional information (such as USE flags,...) once I have access to this machine again... But i am sure that "pam" was not in the USE flags!
"PAM" was not in the use flags at time of the initial "emerge system" this is certainly the mistake I did... (my use flag begins with "-*") Should the initial merge of the base system be possible with "-pam" ? If not, a warning or error message should appear...
Your system was inconsistant. If you change USE=pam to USE=-pam, you need to rebuild everything that depends on PAM, before you can safely remove the pam package. It is entirely possible to have a USE=-pam system, you just need to have your entire system being consistant. In your case, some package was still compiled with USE=pam and needed /etc/pam.d/*
