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Old 10-29-2002, 08:26 PM   #1
Gentooer
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problems with a fresh Gentoo 1.2 install


I recently re-installed a fresh copy of Gentoo 1.2. The install went fine and my system was up and running. I sshd'd into the box from my Windows machine and started updating all the packages. I did an 'emerge -u world' after checking what was going to be installed and off it went. Half way through emerging all the new packages my windows machine reset (gah!). I then tried restarting the 'emerge -u world' on the machine locally and it seemed to finish fine. When I then tried to log into the box locally I kept getting all these weird error messages popping up:

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configuration error - unknown item 'CONSOLE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CREATE_HOME' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'DIALUPS_CHECK_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENVIRON_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ERASECHAR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'KILLCHAR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'LOG_OK_LOGINS' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MAIL_CHECK_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'mAIL_DIR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGINS_FILE' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SU_NAME' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SU_WHEEL_ONLY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SYSLOG_SG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'SYSLOG_SU_ENAB' (notify administrator)
This happens with all users and only seems to be when I log in locally. If I ssh into my box I dont get the errors.

I have noe redone the install and re-updated all my world packages and the exact same problem appeared.

Here are the packages associated with my 'world':

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ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05.tar.gz
man-1.5k.tar.gz
Linux-PAM-0.75.tar.gz
man-pages-1.52.tar.bz2
Python-2.2.2.tgz
metalog-0.6.tar.gz
autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
miscfiles-1.3.tar.gz
autoconf-2.54.tar.bz2
modutils-2.4.19.tar.bz2
automake-1.4-p5.tar.gz
nano-1.0.9.tar.gz
automake-1.5.tar.gz
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.gz
automake-1.6.3.tar.gz
ncurses-5.2.tar.gz
bash-2.05a.tar.gz
net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2
bison-1.35.tar.gz
openssh-3.5p1.tar.gz
bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
openssl-0.9.6g.tar.gz
cracklib2_2.7.orig.tar.gz
pam-0.75-r10-gentoo.tbz2
db-3.2.9.tar.gz
pam_login-3.7.tar.bz2
debianutils_1.16.3.tar.gz
patches-2.4.19-gentoo-r10.tar.bz2
devfsd-v1.3.25.tar.gz
pcre-3.9.tar.bz2
diffutils-2.8.4.tar.gz
perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
e2fsprogs-1.29.tar.gz
procps-2.0.10.tar.bz2
expat-1.95.4.tar.gz
pwdb-0.61.tar.gz
file-3.39.tar.gz
readline-4.1.tar.gz
fileutils-4.1.11.tar.gz
reiserfsprogs-3.6.4.tar.gz
flex-2.5.22.tar.gz
rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz
gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz
sed-4.0.tar.gz
gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz
sh-utils-2.0.15.tar.gz
gettext-0.11.5.tar.gz
shadow-4.0.3.tar.gz
glib-1.2.10.tar.gz
ssmtp-2.38.14.tar.gz
glibc-2.2.5.tar.bz2
sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz
glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.5.tar.bz2
tar-1.13.25.tar.gz
groff-1.17.2.tar.gz
texinfo-4.2b.tar.gz
gzip-1.3.3.tar.gz
textutils-2.1.tar.gz
hdparm-5.2.tar.gz
util-linux-2.11r.patch.gz
iptables-1.2.7a.tar.bz2
util-linux-2.11w.tar.gz
less-378.tar.gz
vixie-cron-3.0.1.tar.bz2
libtool-1.4.1.tar.gz
wget-1.8.2.tar.gz
linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2
wget-new-percentage-cvs-20011209.tar.gz
make-3.80.tar.gz
which-2.14.tar.gz
Does anyone have any idea which package is causing this problem, or possibly what I coudl do to resolve the problem?
 
Old 12-16-2002, 10:39 AM   #2
TheNine
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Registered: Dec 2002
Distribution: Gentoo
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Hey Gentooer,

I dunno if you're still at this point or whether you've done something else by now, but I've just myself overcome this problem. Here's the story:

When you downloaded and installed the newer version of the login program, gentoo's portage didn't put the new style config file in the correct location - it saved your old one thinking it would avoid errors. The old file is /etc/login.defs. The new one will have been called something like ._cfg0000_login.defs. Replace your old file with the new one, and the problem disappears instantly

Hope this wasn't too late to not be helpful - I know what it's like to suddenly find your entire system unusable!
 
  


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