Le 19 août 2020 23:02:12 GMT+04:00, Manuel Reimer <mail+archgeneral@m-reimer.de> a écrit :
Hello,
I know that Arch is not for the "average user" and some background knowledge is expected, but this was the first time I needed a boot stick since I think at least one year.
Some minutes ago I did a regular system update and after that decided to reboot. After reboot I was unable to log into my system. After fiddling a bit I rebooted to an Arch boot stick to find the following message in pacman.log:
[2020-08-19T20:42:55+0200] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pam.d/system-login installed as /etc/pam.d/system-login.pacnew
As this seemed to be a candidate that may cause login problems, I deleted "system-login" and moved the ".pacnew" into place.
After reboot I'm now able to log in again...
IMHO something like this should not happen...
Maybe it's worth a note on the Arch homepage that it is important to move this pacnew into place before reboot?
Manuel
Well, if you don’t read pacman output, you’re kind of asking for such troubles. ;) Also in this case, this means that you modified system-login at some point, else it would have been silently replaced. So no, it’s not worth a news entry. Regards, Bruno/Archange