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ubuntu-standard doesn't depend on libpam-foreground

Bug #195880 reported by DrewM on 2008-02-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #198714: pam reports errors on missing pam_foreground.so. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pam (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The ubuntu-standard metapackage doesn't depend on libpam-foreground or anything with pam for that matter. We are using d-i to install and noticed that the default /etc/pam.d/common-session references pam_foreground.so, and produces errors in the logs because it is not installed by default.

Drew

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Andrew Pollock (apollock) wrote on 2008-03-05:

Alternatively, this could be considered a bug against libpam-runtime

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Jared Schlicht (jschlicht) wrote on 2008-03-20:

I had this issue on my Hardy system.

If I run a command through sudo, I get these messages in my /var/log/auth.log file:

PAM addding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_foreground.so
PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_foreground.so: cannot open shared object file or directory]
PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_foreground.so)

Manually installing libpam-foreground makes the errors go away and fixes the problem.

One way or another, this package should be installed by default. It needs to be a dependency of some package or another.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-03-20:

It was intentionally removed:

revno: 1138
committer: Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
branch nick: ubuntu.hardy
timestamp: Thu 2007-11-22 17:07:54 +0000
message:
remove libpam-foreground; packages which need it need to depend on it explicitly

libpam-runtime is the only thing I see that ships a configuration file including pam_foreground.so, so it should also provide the package relationship.

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tony Espy (awe) wrote on 2008-03-22:

Patch for debian/control - add Dependency for libpam-foreground Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

I ran into this while debugging a gnome-keyring problem on mobile.

Please see attached patch, it seems to work for me on one of our mobile images. This is my first time messing with a debian/control file, so I'm not 100% sure of my fix...

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2008-03-27:

Martin: can you take a look at it?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-03-27:

This was already fixed a while ago:

pam (0.99.7.1-5ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/local/common-session: Drop libpam-foreground. It's gone for good,
    and we do not want this in the PAM config for new installations, since it
    just spams syslog with error messages. (LP: #198714)

-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:22:11 +0100

We cannot remove it on upgrades, since we do not know what the user did to his system in the meantime (and libpam-foreground will not be removed automatically on upgrades).

Nowadays ConsoleKit writes similar tags to /var/run/console/, thus this supersedes libpam-console.