tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post114806217290037923..comments2024-03-22T11:34:45.165+01:00Comments on taw's blog: Beating a dead Gentootawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972845140253292628noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-1163787106997233572006-11-17T19:11:00.000+01:002006-11-17T19:11:00.000+01:00heh, guess i found this page too late... Was exper...heh, guess i found this page too late... Was experiencing same problem with dictd. Solution was easy, in /etc/conf.d/dictd add "--locale YOUR_LOCALE" to EARGS, like this:<BR/><BR/>EARGS="-s --locale ru_RU.UTF-8 "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-1155320728118928912006-08-11T20:25:00.000+02:002006-08-11T20:25:00.000+02:00BIG MISTAKE. If you do this, shadow can accumulate...BIG MISTAKE. If you do this, shadow can accumulate a host of dependencies which would have to be emerged as well. If you successfully unmerge pam-login but fail or get cut off before shadow is installed, you will own a BRICK!<BR/><BR/>Do this instead:<BR/>FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge --nodeps shadow && emerge --unmerge pam-login<BR/><BR/>I know because that's how I got to your blog - looking for a way to recover 3 machines that did this simultaneously :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-1149644732126439012006-06-07T03:45:00.000+02:002006-06-07T03:45:00.000+02:00To fix the PAM-Login/Shadow error:http://forums.ko...To fix the PAM-Login/Shadow error:<BR/><BR/>http://forums.kororaa.org/viewtopic.php?p=7016#7016<BR/>has a description:<BR/><BR/>Essentially, you run:<BR/># emerge -C pam-login<BR/># emerge -1 shadow<BR/><BR/>Basically that will unmerge the pam-login, and then upgrade the shadow package which now includes the "pam_login" module inside it.<BR/><BR/>After doing these two emerges, make sure that you can still login to your machine.<BR/><BR/>Good luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com