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passwd: Authentication token manipulation error | RHEL 6

Problem described as below-

Getting passwd: Authentication token manipulation error on  RHEL6 Machine.

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# passwd user1
Changing password for user user1.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# passwd -u user1 [Tried to unlock the account password.]
Unlocking password for user user1.
passwd: Libuser error at line: 179 – error creating `/etc/passwd+’: Permission denied.
passwd: Error (password not set?)  [Getting Permission denied error hence passwd is not getting changed/updated. Hence, we need to restore the permission on passwd.]

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# chage -l user1
Last password change : Apr 03, 2019
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

Solution-

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# rpm –setperms passwd  [Restore permission on passwd file.]

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# which passwd | xargs chmod u+s [Setting required permission on passwd file.]

[root@ip-linuxbox ~]# restorecon /etc/* [ if SELinux context is properly set for, it will fix the same.]

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# passwd user1
Changing password for user user1.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

[root@ip-linuxbox~]# chage -l user1
Last password change : Jul 28, 2020
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

System Panic During Boot Logging the Error “NOTICE: zfs_parse_bootfs: error 19”

Today while migrating SAN i face this issue, hope it will help others too…

The system panic during boot logging the error:

{0} ok boot 56024-disk
Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1 File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147440-01 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
NOTICE: zfs_parse_bootfs: error 19
Cannot mount root on rpool/68 fstype zfs
panic[cpu0]/thread=180e000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

Changes

This issue usually occurs when system is trying to boot a ZFS rpool and the path to the disk changed, or customer is trying to boot the system from a cloned disk (that means the disk is a copy of another boot disks)

Cause

The issue is caused by a mismatch between the current path of the disk you are trying to boot from and the path stored in the ZFS label of the same disk:

ok boot 56024-disk
Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1 File and args:

 

# zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c0d1s0
——————————————–
LABEL 0
——————————————–
version: 29
name: ‘rpool’
state: 0
txg: 1906
pool_guid: 3917355013518575342
hostid: 2231083589
hostname: ”
top_guid: 3457717657893349899
guid: 3457717657893349899
vdev_children: 1
vdev_tree:
type: ‘disk’
id: 0
guid: 3457717657893349899
path: ‘/dev/dsk/c0d0s0
devid: ‘id1,vdc@f85a3722e4e96b600000e056e0049/a’
phys_path: ‘/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0:a
whole_disk: 0
metaslab_array: 31
metaslab_shift: 27
ashift: 9
asize: 21361065984
is_log: 0
create_txg: 4

As you can see we are trying to boot the path disk@1 but in the ZFS label the path is disk@0.

Solution

To fix the issue you have to boot the system in failsafe mode or from cdrom and import the rpool on that disk to force ZFS to correct the path:

# zpool import -R /mnt rpool
cannot mount ‘/mnt/export’: failed to create mountpoint
cannot mount ‘/mnt/export/home’: failed to create mountpoint
cannot mount ‘/mnt/rpool’: failed to create mountpoint

# zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c0d1s0
——————————————–
LABEL 0
——————————————–
version: 29
name: ‘rpool’
state: 0
txg: 1923
pool_guid: 3917355013518575342
hostid: 2230848911
hostname: ”
top_guid: 3457717657893349899
guid: 3457717657893349899
vdev_children: 1
vdev_tree:
type: ‘disk’
id: 0
guid: 3457717657893349899
path: ‘/dev/dsk/c0d1s0
devid: ‘id1,vdc@f85a3722e4e96b600000e056e0049/a’
phys_path: ‘/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1:a
whole_disk: 0
metaslab_array: 31
metaslab_shift: 27
ashift: 9
asize: 21361065984
is_log: 0
create_txg: 4

As you can see the path has been corrected, however you have also to remove the zpool.cache file otherwise after boot the ZFS command will still show the disk as c0d0:

# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 5.86G 13.7G 106K /mnt/rpool
rpool/ROOT 4.35G 13.7G 31K legacy
rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b 4.35G 13.7G 4.35G /mnt
rpool/dump 1.00G 13.7G 1.00G –
rpool/export 63K 13.7G 32K /mnt/export
rpool/export/home 31K 13.7G 31K /mnt/export/home
rpool/swap 528M 14.1G 114M –

# zfs mount rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b
# cd /mnt/etc/zfs
# rm zpool.cache