No login (Told invalid password after putting in username)

Tweezers · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

I thought long and hard about where to post this, I apologize if it's in the wrong category.

(I had a working install, through a problem with e2fsprogs I started destructively hacking at it)
As part of an emerge world pam was updated, and now, when I boot:

login: (Put in a username)
Invalid Password

(It says the password is invalid before I get a chance to even try to enter a password)

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
I've searched around but can't quite find anyone with this same problem, and I don't really have any experience dealing with pam or login issues such as this. (This stuff has just always worked perfectly for me)

poly_poly-man · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:02 am Post subject:

try booting a livecd, chrooting in, emerge pam, login, and anything else you can think of. revdep-rebuild and all are your friends.

And if you messed up the source of a package, put it back - the problem is *never* in the source

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bombcar · Guru Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 453 Location: Wisconsin

Can you add "single" to your kernel line in GRUB and get a console that way?

Tweezers · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

I should do a better job of keeping up with my own forum posts...

I could boot to a single user shell with the Interactive prompt, which was pretty awesome, but I wasn't allowed to run passwd (Which I am glad about).

Reemerging pam didn't fix it either, but sad to say, I didn't end up fixing it at all. I just basically just pulled my entire system apart and reassembled it around pam, not a method I would recommend for anyone. I should try to figure out what happened some other time.

I haven't anything useful to contribute on the topic now.