system unbootable - libpam.so.0

[Tomas Mraz]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:13 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Monday 06 February 2006 3:53 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> > I get failures on cusd, sshd, crond, and atd after today's updates. The
> > system gets to hal which reports "OK", and then just stalls. Didn't write
> > them down, but the messages in each case refer to libpam.so.0 problems
> 
> No one's responded, so maybe there was too little info. 
> The boot errors say the following:
> error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0 cannot open shared object 
> file: no such or directory
> These occur with cupsd, sshd, crond, atd
Well it seems that your update went wrong and removed libpam.so.0
somehow. The question is why it happened and I don't know that.

Maybe booting to single mode and looking for some logs could help.

It should be fixable by manual reinstall of the pam package.

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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>