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2008/03/21 10:02:48 passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Quote Postby valdis » 2008/03/21 init script setup failed basic sanity checks, aborting! 10:18:38 When I want to change my password I always see this message passwd: Critical error - immediate abortHow couchpotato: init script setup failed basic sanity checks, aborting! I can fix this? Thanks. Top michaelnel Posts: 1478 Joined: 2006/05/29 16:50:11 Location: San Francisco, CA Re: passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Quote Postby michaelnel » 2008/03/21 17:35:36 Can you show us the permissions and ownership of /etc/passwd, etc/group, and /etc/shadow? Top valdis Posts: 6 Joined: 2008/03/21 10:02:48 Re: passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Quote Postby valdis » 2008/03/31 20:11:41 Its likes goodI think problem is in my pamd or cracklib but I can't find itMaybe unistalling cracklib fix this bug but it's not a good idea-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10771 Mar 31 02:56 passwd-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10726 Mar 21 04:55 passwd--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9972 Feb 8 2007 passwd.fixhome-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10669 Mar 6 01:41 passwd.OLD-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12309 Mar 6 23:03 passwd,v-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2920 Mar 31 02:56 group-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2903 Mar 21 04:50 group--rw------- 1 root root 2068 Mar 31 02:56 gshadow-rw------- 1 root root 2057 Mar 21 04:51 gshadow--rw------- 1 root root 9454 Mar 31 02:56 shadow-rw------- 1 root root 9425 Mar 21 04:55 shadow--rw------- 1 root root 30173 Mar 7 22:59 shadow,v-rw------- 1 root root 6 Mar 14 07:26 shadow,v.lock Top gerald_clark Posts: 10595 Joined: 2005/08/05 15:19:54 Location: Northern Illinois, USA passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Quote Postby gerald_clark » 2008/03/31 20:17:08 Looks like you have a checkin ( ci ) hung on the shadow file.Did you mistype 'vi' ? Top michaelnel Posts: 1478 Joined: 2006/05/29 16:50:11 Location: San Francisco, CA Re: passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Quote Postby michaelnel » 2008/03/31 22:04:30 gerald_clark wrote:Looks like you have a checkin ( ci ) hung on the shadow file.Did you mistype 'vi' ?Awesome! That would be an easy typo to make and would have this resul
abort Pages: 1 #1 2012-12-27 23:53:53 ferromagnificent Member Registered: 2011-05-24 Posts: 18 [SOLVED]login: PAM failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort When I attempt to login, I recieve the error:login: PAM failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abortand cannot login as root or my non-root user.It happened two days after a system update, however, I noticed nothing particularly interesting in standard out during the update and I had no problems until tonight. While running VirtualBox and installing a windows xp host, the system seemingly aribitrarily crashed, closed X, and spit out the http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41781 above error for the first time when I attempted to login.While attempting to recover from this problem I noticed a passwd.pacnew, and shadow.pacnew among others which did not seem pertinent. I made no changes to passwd or shadow. I made no changes to /etc/pam.d/* or anything related to PAM.I formerly used slim, configured to automatically login the only non-root user without https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155300 a password, but disabled most daemons to try to solve the problem.Does anyone have any suggestions to alleviate or diagnose this problem? I really don't want to reinstall fresh and even lose the programs I have to reinstall. Last edited by ferromagnificent (2012-12-28 06:18:39) Offline #2 2012-12-28 00:00:48 cfr Member From: Cymru Registered: 2011-11-27 Posts: 5,675 Re: [SOLVED]login: PAM failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort Are you sure those *.pacnew files are not relevant?Do the logs show anything relevant?Are you using systemd? Check pacman.log to make sure you didn't miss something. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way | Help VampiresArch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | grub2 | systemd | LVM2 on LUKSLenovo x121e | Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2367M CPU @ 1.40GHz GenuineIntel | Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 | US keyboard with Euro | 320G 7200 RPM Seagate HDD Offline #3 2012-12-28 00:14:29 ewaller Administrator From: Pasadena, CA Registered: 2009-07-13 Posts: 13,603 Re: [SOLVED]login: PAM failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort Do not cross post. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1210863 Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if
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