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clauchiorean
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Joined: 19 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: Login error |
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At every login I receive this:
configuration error - unknown item "GETPASS _ASTERISKS"
I don't know how to get rid of it.
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grunthus
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Joined: 21 Apr 2005
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Location: Shetland UK
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This happened to me (similar errors at any rate) on a box after a 'big' set of emerges. I must have messed up a config file update.
Try running etc-update or dispatch-conf. If that doesn't do the job, comment out the offending line in /etc/login.defs, first making a backup:
| Code: | cp /etc/login.defs /etc/login.defs.bak
nano -w /etc/login.defs
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Think you need then to do this:
| Code: | etc-update
source /etc/profile |
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Theophile
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I have this same problem, but I cannot even login to my system. All logins and password are rejected. What can I do?
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moesasji
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@Theophile: You have a higher chance to get an answer if you start your own topic.
Now your question was completely hidden.
Anyway: To get access to your system you do the following. (change the hda3 & hda2) to correspond to your root and boot-partition.
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Boot from the Install CD and wait until you receive a prompt
We first mount all partitions:
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
# swapon /dev/hda2
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
Then we chroot into our Gentoo environment and configure the kernel:
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update && source /etc/profile
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With this you chrooted into your installation and can do any fixes necessary.
What exactly you need to do once in the chroot I do not know exactly.
Seeing this bugreport I guess that re-emerge shadow with emerge --oneshot shadow would solve it. |
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