Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:03:00 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:

> > > Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before
> > > emerging @world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three
> > > systems I tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM
> > > before terminating the existing session.  
> >
> > MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge -1 passwdqc worked here. Sys-libs/pam had
> > already installed by the time passwdqc failed the first time.
> > Sys-auth/pam is not in my update list, but sys-auth/pambase is, and
> > has installed without protest. 
> 
> Either USE="-passwdqc" for pambase or MAKEOPTS="-j1" for passwdqc works
> consistently for me too. I think you just need to make sure that
> pam+pambase are both updated before logging out ;)
> One system that I had to rescue from a live system + chroot :(

Interestingly, I've now emerged passwordqc successfully on four systems,
with MAKEOPTS ranging from -j2 to j8. Only the 4th failed, and that
worked when I went from -j4 to -j3. This appears to be a bit of a
borderline case, which may explain why it slipped through.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, give up. No use being a damn fool.

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