From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Upgraded pam at some point yesterday, and my existing pam system-auth file got moved to system-auth.rpmsave, but no new file was ever created. That left the system unable to authenticate any new logins. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-0.80-14.1 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start w/a fully updated FC4 2. Install packages from the development tree (most notably, pam) 3. Try to log in Actual Results: Unable to login to system. Expected Results: Should be able to login to system. Additional info: Fixed by renaming system-auth.rpmsave to system-auth. Note that my system-auth file was modified by authconfig to include ldap authentication, so perhaps that's what triggered the .rpmsave, but something certainly went wrong w/creating a new one...
That would have to be a RPM bug as system-auth is marked %config(noreplace) in spec file so the original system-auth shouldn't be overwritten and instead of it a system-auth.rpmnew should be created.
Files with extension .rpmsave are created when the original file is not in a package. I see no evidence that this "would have to be an RPM bug".
Well the reason is that the files mentioned are in the new version of the package so they shouldn't be removed. I don't say that it is 100% rpm bug. Depending on the install method it can be also yum or it might be SELinux policy bug. But it definitely isn't a bug in the PAM package. Reporter, could you please write exact steps you have done when you were upgrading the PAM package? Also could you try the same steps with the newest PAM library? And do you have SELinux on and in enforcing mode?
I'd probably have to retrace my steps entirely to figure out exactly when things went wrong, this system was a fully updated FC4 box that I started doing nightly yum upgrades on. One such upgrade included the pam version mentioned in the initial description. No problems with the subsequent upgrade to pam 0.99.2.1-2 though. I'll see what I can get with another FC4 system... Ah, and SELinux is disabled.
I've done successful upgrades using anaconda to rawhide from FC4 + updates. I'll try and reproduce here.
Just tried to reproduce here. Fully updated an FC4 box, ran authconfig to enable ldap authentication, then upgraded to pam out of current rawhide (0.99.something), and everything worked as expected this time. On a semi-related note, a full yum upgrade to rawhide has made the system completely unbootable, but that's for another ticket...