On Apr 4, 1:05 am, pk <p...@pk.invalid> wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > I used `emerge --resume --skipfirst` and made a mental note (as well as
> > a Usenet note ;D) to run `FEATURES=-unmerge-orphans emerge cracklib`
> > afterwards. I hope this conclusion I came to is the right one :P
>
> Yes, that's usually the right thing to do when running long emerges. And, as
> a side note, remember to always keep a root session open until you're sure
> that users can login fine, especially if you get errors in packages like
> pam, shadow, etc. If you log out and login is broken, you're locked out and
> must recover using other means.

I encountered the same error. Thanks to your postings that I am now
able to "resume".