Hello Alainna, The two errors are not connected in anyway. The file pam_stack.so is not provided with Linux-PAM package and is a OS specific one. So it has to be copied after loading Linux-PAM package. Secondly, the error is generated by the linux-pam library when it tries to retrieve the username. There can be many reasons for this. The following options can be tried - 1. Upgrade your Linux-PAM package. 2. Reinstall login application(comes as a part of util-linux package). 3. If neither of the above two works, try to debug the 'login' application (/bin/login). Feel free to contact me any other information. Thanks, Sharad Chandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alainna C. Wonders" <awonders@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 3:43 AM Subject: No Conv Element in PAMH? > Good evening, > > I was modifying PAM on an server running RH6.2 libs with RH9.0 kernel, and I > rebooted the system. When it came back up I was unable to log into the > console. I can, however, get an SSH session. When I did this, I managed to > catch the lines: > > [dlerror]: /lib/security/pam_stack.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_stack.so > "no conv element in pamh" in /var/log/messages. > > The version of pam is 0.72-x. > > It said it couldn't find pam_stack.so in /lib/security, so I went ahead and > SCP'ed it over from another box with the same OS/PAM combo that works (I > still haven't a clue how it disappeared in the first place; I was editing > files in /etc/pam.d). It no longer gives the error that it can't find/open > the file, but I still get the error about 'no conv element'. > > I only saw one hit (in English) for this in Google groups, but there was no > reply as to how to repair this. > > Any help is very appreciated. > > Thanks! > > - Alainna > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
