libpam.so lost in update to 11.0-ALPHA3

[Ben Woods]

On 14 June 2016 at 09:11, René Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I updated my pkgbase installation (11.0-amd64 from a few weeks ago) to
> 11.0-ALPHA3. Building and installing went fine but it turns out that
> libpam.so* is lost in the update (both the symlink and the actual so,
> currently so.6) :
>
> # pkg upgrade
> # pkg autoremove
>    <<FreeBSD-lib removed which contains the old libpam.so.5, so one
> version lower)
>   << yes, I forgot to run mergemaster>>
> # reboot
>   <<login(1) no longer works, but single-user + dhclient is still fine)
>
> Is this a known bug?
>
> Regards,
> René
>

Michael Lucas mentioned on twitter a few days ago that pam was broken
recently in FreeBSD current.

Michael: was this a problem with libpam.so going missing? Were you using
pkgbase, or is this an issue with the normal build/install system also?

Regards,
Ben

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From: Benjamin Woods
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