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02-27-2006, 09:26 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 33
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unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' etc. after login or su
When I log in or use su I get
configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify administrator)
Before this started to occur I did apt-get upgrade.
Google finds a couple of cases of this same problem but I couldn't find any solution. Does anybody know why this is happening and how it could be fixed?
I'm running unstable with 2.6.15 kernel.
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02-28-2006, 05:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: nc
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 19
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I don't recomend doing apt-get upgrade, it will change the dynamics of every package on your system(or almost all) What is your distro: debian, mepis, ubuntu, ?
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02-28-2006, 06:21 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 33
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After some heavy digging I found a solution from Debian bug report logs.
Thanks for the answer anyways.
P.S.
Here's the solution if someone should need it:
The problem is caused by upgrading package login.
apt-get for some reason doesn't remove FAIL_DELAY etc. from /etc/login.defs eventhough they are not needed anymore (and may not exist in that file). If you manually comment out those lines, everything should work.
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03-05-2006, 11:25 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Philadelphia area
Distribution: Ubuntu Gutsy
Posts: 15
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Thanks, Kulmis!
I just ran into that problem after an upgrade tonight, but commenting out FAIL_DELAY fixes it.
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03-11-2006, 06:02 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2006
Posts: 4
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Thanks, that did it.
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07-22-2006, 12:12 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Essex and Norfolk
Distribution: Debian, Fedora 8 and 9, Mandriva 2009, Mepis, Kubuntu, SuSe 10.1, Slackware 12.1 - and Knoppix.
Posts: 155
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THANKS! I just had a major Debian crash, and used apt-get upgrade in sheer desperation. Same list of messages, same fix!
I still can't get the GUI to start - boot-up ends with Login: - but I'm off to Google some more.
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12-30-2006, 11:31 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Posts: 15
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Cool solution, but is security compromised that way or a default fail_delay value is assigned?
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06-29-2007, 03:39 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2007
Distribution: debian 3,4 solaris 9,10 aix 4
Posts: 2
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after upgrade or distro upgrade better look at /etc/login.defs.dpkg-dist http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/i...ilies/read.gif
some of the above settings are moved to /etc/pam.d/
ENV_HZ
PASS_MAX_LEN
CHFN_AUTH
and these are obsoleted
CLOSE_SESSIONS |
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