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  1. Bug #259867
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 259867

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Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 259867] Re: [PAM] Unable to login: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

Thanks, I think I got it going now. I don't remember what I was told to
do, but it was something about "pam_allow.so" or something similar,
sorry I lost the page.

Thanks to all, and thanks to all the developers on how great Intrepid is
so far even with the occasional hiccup.

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> If you can run the script that I've provided at
> <http://people.ubuntu.com/~vorlon/meh>, this will fix the problem so
> that you can again log in and continue the upgrade.
>
> Alternatively, from a rescue session you can simply replace "pam_deny" with "pam_permit" in /etc/pam.d/common-session, continue booting, then do the following:
> 1) open a root shell
> 2) rm /etc/pam.d/common-session
> 3) run pam-auth-update --force
> 4) upgrade
>
> this should get you a pristine configuration with the new version of
> libpam-runtime installed.
>
>