Bug 70049 – PAM authentication failure while emerging slocate

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Andre Hinrichs 2004-11-04 07:42:15 UTC]

After doing an sync today portage told me to switch to another profile (2004.0).
So I did it. After that I did an 'emerge -p depclean' and saw that portage wanted
to delete several packages I need, e.g. slocate. I decided to just do an 'emerge slocate' to add slocate to the world file. Unfortunately the emerge failed:

>>> original instance of package unmerged safely.
groupmod: PAM authentication failed

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r5 failed.
!!! Function pkg_postinst, Line 61, Exitcode 9
!!! Failed to create slocate group
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

!!! FAILED postinst: 1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge sync
2.emerge slocate

Actual Results:  
emerge slocate failes with PAM authentication failure


Expected Results:  
emerge slocate should install without any errors

Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.200.1/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://src.gentoo.pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.200.1/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bonobo
bzlib cdr cpdflib crypt cups curl dbm divx4linux dvd emacs encode esd f77 fam
flac flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg kde lcms ldap leim libg++
libwww mad maildir mhash mikmod milter mime ming mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg
mysql mysqli nas ncurses nls nocardbus odbc oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam
pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl php plotutils png posix ppds python qt quicktime
readline recode sasl scanner sdl shared sharedmem simplexml slang slp sndfile
soap sockets speex spell spl ssl svg svga szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff
tokenizer truetype unicode usb wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm
xsl xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2004-11-04 07:46:52 UTC]

see bug 69895

[Comment 2 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2004-11-04 10:13:50 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69895 ***