Did a new full install of RH 6.0. Selected use shadow and MD5 passwords, don't use NIS under the authentication page in the install program. Installed fine. Logged in as root, and added new user without program. Run 'passwd steve' and receive passwd: Critical error - Immediate abort I don't think it should be doing that... Any ideas??
I was able to reproduce the error 3 times.
The error string is in libpam, not passwd so I'm changing the component.
I've had this happen too, and found, after running ps -aux that there were multiple, unkillable instances of "passwd username" running. I had to crash the computer to make them go away
I think these are two separate problems. The unkillable processes implies that they are in uninterruptible disk wait, which, on local disks, indicates either a hardware problem or a bug in the driver; I would suspect hardware first. PAM is just reporting this to you; "Critical error" is the string interpretation of PAM_ABORT, which is an error returned in all sorts of terminal error conditions. To the original reporter:Can you look in your log files for the following strings and see what you find? "cannot determine database to use for authtok" "failed to obtain new pwdb" "user (.*/.*) update failed" "password received unknown request" Those, I think, are the most likely errors that you are encountering, and without knowing which error is being encourntered, we can't be really sure where to look. If none of them are showing up, then we will have to broaden the scope of our search. ------- Additional Comments From 09/25/99 18:23 ------- We now have anecdotal evidence that this event occurs only when a user has "su'd" to root. I can generate the error frequently after su'ing, but haven't been able to generate it when logging in directly on the console as root or by connecting as root via ssh. I received mail from another reader of the bugzilla list who suggested rebuilding the kernel, which I did. Are there known bugs in any of the current adaptec drivers? Sep 23 10:50:17 limb PAM_pwdb[11218]: check pass; user unknown Sep 23 10:50:21 limb PAM_pwdb[11218]: (login) session opened for user lcai by (uid=0) Sep 23 10:51:52 limb PAM_pwdb[11234]: (login) session opened for user bao by (uid=0) Sep 23 10:52:47 limb PAM_pwdb[11268]: 1 authentication failure; lcai(uid=13074) -> root for su service Sep 23 10:52:50 limb PAM_pwdb[11272]: (su) session opened for user root by lcai(uid=13074) Sep 23 10:56:51 limb PAM_pwdb[11291]: user (manager/30001) update failed; pwdb: another process has locked resource Do the included log entries say anything to you?
assigned to nalin
I am also getting this error. I'm running redhat 6.1 on an Intel platform. Ernie
Wow, this bug is old. I'm thinking that Red Hat Linux 7.3 does not display this behavior. Please reopen if you have similar problems with 7.3.