[arch-general] No login after update

[Josef Miegl]

This can only happen if you or another program modified the original file.

Josef Miegl

On August 19, 2020 9:02:12 PM GMT+02:00, Manuel Reimer <mail+archgeneral at m-reimer.de> wrote:
>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