gnu/124839: root login failed after installation libiconv-1.12 from sources

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 21 17:30:05 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR gnu/124839; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Ivan Kalugin <ivan-kalugin at yandex.ru>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gnu/124839: root login failed after installation libiconv-1.12
 from	sources
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:27:39 +0200

 Ivan Kalugin wrote:
 
 > I try to install libiconv-1.12 on several systems (i386, amd64). The type of FreeBSD installation is "minimal".
 > 
 > ./configure
 > make
 > make install
 > 
 > Every step is ok. But next root login failed. System show welcome screen and login repeat.
 
 Sounds like you overwrote a critical part of your system by accident. 
 Ask on the freebsd-questions mailing list if you need help to recover -- 
 but make sure to give much more detail about exactly what is going 
 wrong.  As it stands you haven't given enough details for anyone to help 
 you.
 
 Kris


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