Hey,
so today I rebooted and wasn't able to log back in.
sddm, which is configured to autologin, was stuck on a black screen with mouse and tty login just said the password was wrong...
I booted a live system. I have a cron job running pacman -Syu every couple days and since I didn't change anything, I looked at the pacman log from cron. (I know, that running pacman like that is officially unsupported, but I'd argue, this wasn't really the problem here.)
Subject: fcron <systab@arctic> ionice -c 2 -n 7 pacman --noprogressbar --noconfirm -Syu
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Total Download Size: 804.55 MiB
Total Installed Size: 2747.92 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 15.52 MiB
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gpg: next trustdb check due at 2020-09-13
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upgrading pambase...
warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth installed as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.pacnew
warning: /etc/pam.d/system-login installed as /etc/pam.d/system-login.pacnew
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installing libxcrypt...
upgrading libcups...
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If you run into trouble with CUDA not being available, run nvidia-modprobe first.
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python: for xfs_scrub_all script [installed]
smtp-forwarder: for xfs_scrub_fail script
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perl: for conplay [installed]
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-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect
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==> Image generation successful
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-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.8.3-artix1-1
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==> Starting build: 5.8.3-artix1-1
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-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
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==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [resume]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
( 7/13) Warn about old perl modules
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So the interesting part is
upgrading pambase...
warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth installed as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.pacnew
warning: /etc/pam.d/system-login installed as /etc/pam.d/system-login.pacnew
upgrading pam...
I changed those files at some point in time. Here is the diff between my and the pacman version:
diff system-auth.{my,pacnew}
3,4c3,7
< auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok nodelay
< auth optional pam_faildelay.so delay=300000
---
> auth required pam_faillock.so preauth
> # Optionally use requisite above if you do not want to prompt for the password
> # on locked accounts.
> auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok
> auth [default=die] pam_faillock.so authfail
6a10,12
> auth required pam_faillock.so authsucc
> # If you drop the above call to pam_faillock.so the lock will be done also
> # on non-consecutive authentication failures.
12c18
< password required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok sha512 shadow
---
> password required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok shadow
diff -w system-login.{my,pacnew}
3d2
< auth required pam_tally2.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/tallylog
8d6
< account required pam_tally2.so
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< session optional pam_env.so user_readenv=1 user_envfile=.pam_environment
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> session required pam_env.so user_readenv=1After changing both files to the pacman version, I could login again. (From looking at it, I'd say only changing the system-login would've been enough.)
Looking at syslog:
authpriv.err: Sep 1 17:38:59 sddm-helper: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so): /usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
authpriv.err: Sep 1 17:38:59 sddm-helper: PAM adding faulty module: /usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so
authpriv.warn: Sep 1 17:38:59 sddm-helper: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
authpriv.err: Sep 1 17:39:58 login: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so): /usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
authpriv.err: Sep 1 17:39:58 login: PAM adding faulty module: /usr/lib/security/pam_tally2.so
authpriv.notice: Sep 1 17:40:00 login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM tty1 FOR mcd, Module is unknown
So pacman decided to keep my configuration, but the new version of pam removed pam_tally2.so.
I wrote this post because this annoys me. This is user/administrator pain that should not exist. This is so stupid. This should not happen. What can be changed, so this kind of stuff doesn't happen? Where is the root cause? Who or what software is to blame?
My two cents: Since /etc/pam.d/system-login belongs to pambase, but depends on files provided from pam, pacman could not have known about that problem. So pacman is not to blame.
But I don't know, how this could've been prevented.
Side question: Would anyone here have seen the pacman warning and acted upon it, if they had manually run pacman -Syu?
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