Created attachment 655794 [details] emerge --info trying to log in into console. Putting username/password. Log in process does not complain about password. I see cursor for a few seconds and I am dropped to the same log in screen. After some googling found that this line is offending: session required pam_limits.so in this file: /etc/pam.d/system-auth I commented it, so I am able to log in. But others perhaps can't. Prevents boot, IMHO critical priority is justified.
I could log in in 'repair mode', when chosen from GRUB.
Please share: * emerge -pvO sys-libs/pam sys-auth/pambase * Any relevant syslog entries * whether or not you have run dispatch-conf recently (this is important) This could be related to pam, pambase, or something else entirely.
pam_limits.so is irrelevant to the login process per se, it may be a problem if only your pam stack is somehow broken, this means you dug up in a wrong direction. I strongly belive that if it were a massive problem people would report it earlier. I agree with what Sam has already written, plus: - What are your sys-libs/pam sys-auth/pambase versions? - What are your use flags for sys-auth/pambase? - Have you followed this news item if you are a testing branch user [0]? - Would be nice if you could reproduce the problem and then extract the log that may indicate the problem (say, from chroot) we need /var/log/messages / journalctl -b extraction indicating PAM errors [0] - https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-23-upgrade-to-sys-libs_pam-1_4_0.html Please reopen the bug when all the information gathered. Provided information is not enough to find and solve a problem.
