Is Debian Unstable Messed Up?

[MrNewbie]

I have apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on two computers today and afterwards I cannot log into either. I enter a username and there is a pause then it says login incorrect.
Is this a problem with the unstable tree? I hope it is fixed soon if it is.

[Skroob]

libpam is broken in unstable. As of last night there were fixed packages at http://incoming.debian.org
If you don't have a root login(I happend to because I noticed this right away) then you'll need to boot into single user mode and update the packages from there.

[MrNewbie]

Thanks a lot! I'm just glad it isn't only me having the problem.

[Bradmont2]

Whoa.... I just upgraded libpam-modules from unstable... then came here and read this...

I was connected to my system remotely over ssh....

/me is glad he hadn't closed his 'su' session.... :eek:

Thanx 4 the linkage, skroob

[Skroob]

FYI, I've found a good place to go when a your system is hosed because of a bad upgrade is #debian on irc.openprojects.net. Most of the time there is something in the topic or the news(/msg apt news). This can get you an immediate response and they usually already have a fix. Of course, going here and checking for problems before upgrading would be a better idea, but I'm usually too lazy.


EDIT: Wrong IRC server

[ 26 June 2001: Message edited by: Skroob ]

[dosh8er]

...actually.. it's irc.debian.org #debian

*frequent vistitor*

[Skroob]

Well I get to it from openprojects. I assume it's the same room?

[ 26 June 2001: Message edited by: Skroob ]