login problem

[waker]

i didn't use my gentoo for a week or so, and now when i boot and enter my username and password i see something like that:

login(pam_unix)[5641] session opened for user xxxx by (uid 0)
login(pam_unix)[5641] session closed for user xxxx by (uid 0)

so i cannot login at all
the same thing happens when i trying to login as root

so i've boot livecd and chrooted and i can su to root and regular user.
tried to create test user (to be sure that's not password failure) - and the new user cannot login too.

what's happened? what can be done to fix that?

i can't remember what did i emerged last, but i remember i've played with demo version of vmware last day (which didn't work anyway..)

[kkubasik]

its possible that vmware would get involved in your sessions, but I don't know specificaly what it could have done, if a user created anew from a chrooted cd couldnt help you. Ill google around a bit, but this is puzzling. the only thing I ask is if you have any logs that might contain a little more info. (idealy from when you were playing with vm ware?)

[sarumont]

You can also access your logs from the chroot environment. They will hopefully help shed some light on this.

[waker]

hi. it's me again
i've just spent about an hour to fix the issue, and i still cannot login

more complete description of a problem:

1. the only (related) messages in syslog are those i sent in my 1st message (session opened blah-blah.... and session closed blah-blah)

2. system seems to let me in, but immediately kicks me out. at least i think so. i created test user (test:test), and when i tried to login - i got "directory /home/test not found, trying to login with / home" or something like that

3. vmware seems not involved - i unmerged it, and problem is still there.

4. when i issue "login" command after i boot using "gentoo init=/bin/bash" - i get the same messages about opened and closed session, so i think i messed up my init scripts

so, the question - what is the right way to find problematic script?
going to compare my scripts to livecd scripts...
evil..

[waker]

i managed to fix the problem (at least, i'm logged in and writing that from inside)

seems bash is the problem.

i was advised to try different shell and see what happens, so i used livecd to emerge zsh, and i set zsh as my login shell, an voila.

so next question - how to get bash back working? :)
what it behaves so strangely?

[lordnothing]

re-merge bash would probably fix it.. but to be honest, i think zsh is the better of the two shells, anyways.. the only reason bash is still on my boxen is for various scripts written in bash...

[waker]

re-merge bash would probably fix it.. but to be honest, i think zsh is the better of the two shells, anyways.. the only reason bash is still on my boxen is for various scripts written in bash...

i really tried to re-merge BEFORE posting the 1st message here.. it didn't help..
strange things happen..