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Re: pwdb

To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pwdb
From: Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Joan Eslinger <wombat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000502205556.C1444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:12:02PM -0700, Ulf Carlsson wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone seen this message before:
> > 
> > PAM_pwdb[92]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no longer valid
> > 
> > I get it when I try to login after I've typed in the root password when I'm
> > using the RPM packages from Ralf.  I don't know what it's trying to tell me.
> > By the way, I had to use the old util-linux package because there was no
> > util-linux in Ralf's collection.  Any hints?
> 
> I think I've seen those messages myself somewhen in the past.  Afair it's
> some incompatibility between PAM versions, so upgrading / recompiling
> should help.

Maybe I can downgrade PAM or would that cause every other program to break?  I
think this is because login is from the old util-linux and thus compiled
against an old version of PAM.  Did the compile of that RPM package break?

> I just tried to check some details on my Indy but as it looks my Indy's
> NVRAM just died ...

It seems like you have a fetish for killing RAM.

Ulf


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