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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 12, Ladislav Hagara [ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz] wrote:
> Hi,
> just run unattended "sorcery system-update" which broke my laptop (test
> grimoire).
> I can't log in.
> I run the same on my server and all work like a charm. No idea where the
> problem is.
> 
> Something is broken with shadow or linux-pam or ...
> Login even doesn't want my password.
> When I write login name (root or user, the same) I can only read 5 times
> "login incorrect" and "Maximum number of tries exceeded (5)" even I
> wrote it only once.
> When I removed root's password from /etc/passwd (passwords again in
> /etc/passwd :-( not in /etc/shadow) by live linux nothing changed.
> Boot with "linux init=/bin/bash" works but problems with device files
> (/dev/hdaX don't exist, I have them in /etc/fstab).
> When I tried to change password, system only wrote "passwd:
> Authentication token manipulation error".

Is there anything useful in the syslog?

> I will try to recover it. Only now I have not time.
> I write it just to warn users.
> And thinking about some "disaster recovery howto" in our wiki.

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