Bug 433499

Summary:	pam-0.99.8.1-17.fc8 breaks logins through kdm
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2008-02-19 17:53:05 UTC

Description of problem:

With the latest pam update, logins with kdm fail:

secure:
Feb 19 10:19:52 antero kdm: :0[2467]: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_limits.so)
Feb 19 10:19:52 antero kdm: :0[2467]: PAM [error: /lib/libpam.so.0: version
`LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.1' not found (required by /lib/security/pam_limits.so)]
Feb 19 10:19:52 antero kdm: :0[2467]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_limits.so
Feb 19 10:19:52 antero kdm: :0[2467]: pam_unix(kdm:auth): authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=vanloon

messages:
Feb 19 10:20:13 antero kdm: :0[2467]: pam_open_session() for vanloon failed:
Module is unknown
Feb 19 10:20:13 antero kdm: :0[2467]: Client start failed
Feb 19 10:20:13 antero kdm: :0[2467]: pam_close_session() failed: Module is unknown

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.99.8.1-17.fc8

Why was this update pushed immediately to stable?

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2008-02-19 18:47:34 UTC

It wasn't, it was in testing for about two weeks. And nobody reported anything.

Your problem is also only intermittent - as soon as kdm is restarted (with the
new pam installed) it should disappear.