Description of problem: I intalled Mageia3RC1 one hour ago (using KDE predefined setting in the installer), started Mageia, logged into KDE and updated all packages. Directly afterwards, all my passwords where broken. Reinstall does not solve the problem. I can only log in into secure mode, but resetting the passwords of root or my user does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia3RC1 How reproducible: I did not try to reinstall yet, but actually hope I don't have to ;). However I will of course do it, if nobody else is facing this problem. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3
Is it possible that you accepted to overwrite /etc/shadow and similar files with .rpmnew files? If yes then this bug is a duplicate of bug #9821.
CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Oh my :( ... seems like that. With help of http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recovering-deleted-etcshadow-password-file.html i was able to fix the issue: I started failsafe mode and run: pwconv -- to recreate /etc/shadow passwd -- to set a new root password password drehatlas -- to set a new password for my user sync -- to make sure everything is written to the files reboot that's it :) - it works again! Thanks for you help Sander Lepik
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID
You should run "grpconv" too, to recreate /etc/gshadow as you probably overwrote that too.
CC: (none) => tmb
Thanks for the note Thomas Backlund. I am not sure whether I overwrote that file as well, but I better rewrote it as well :).
*** Bug 9821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
CC: (none) => ujl