Pam has gone walkies - HELP!

[n0dalus]

On 12/18/05, Paul F. Johnson <Paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system seems to have gone potty. I've fixed the initscript problen, but now
> seem to have lost libpam.so.0 which means that I can't log in!
>
> Is there anyway to abort during a boot up so that I am dropped to that insert
> root password login you see when fsck gets annoyed?
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>

I had this problem too, see:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00479.html

The fix for me was to boot into runlevel 1 (by editing the boot line
in grub and putting a 1 on the end), and run `rpm -Uvh
/var/cache/yum/development/packages/pam*.rpm` from the terminal.

n0dalus.