KDM is unable to login on my system. Message: A critical error occured. Please look at the KDM Logfiles...
KDM version: 3.4.1 pam version: 0.77-r6 This bug is fixable with USE="-pam". Greetings Philipp /var/log/everything/current: Jun 13 17:33:42 [kdm] Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 9) from manager process Jun 13 17:38:32 [kdm] :0[27555]: PAM pam_parse: expecting return value; [...include] Jun 13 17:38:32 [kdm] :0[27555]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/system-auth) Jun 13 17:38:32 [kdm] :0[27555]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/system-auth: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Jun 13 17:38:32 [kdm] :0[27555]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/system-auth Jun 13 17:38:32 [kdm] :0[27555]: PAM pam_parse: expecting return value; [...include] emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 5 2005, 14:31:51)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 icq imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mime motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
It should have asked you to install sys-libs/pam-0.78 because that's what you need to use pam with 3.4.1 version.
...in other words, did you force an upgrade to kde-base/kdebase-pam-5 without respecting the dependency on sys-libs/pam?
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