[Bug 790538] Re: pam update causes cron to stop working with "Module is unknown" error

[Kate Stewart]

Adding in the set of affected series,  for tracking purposes.

** Also affects: pam (Ubuntu Hardy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pam (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pam (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pam (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Maverick)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Natty)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Hardy)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

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Title:
  pam update causes cron to stop working with "Module is unknown" error

Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “pam” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in “pam” source package in Maverick:
  Confirmed
Status in “pam” source package in Natty:
  Confirmed
Status in “pam” source package in Hardy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upgrading libpam-modules from 1.1.1-4ubuntu1 to 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2, cron stopped working, just gives a log message "Module is unknown". This happened during unattended-upgrades this night, so there might be a lot of people who didn't realize that yet.
  Downgrading to 1.1.1-4ubuntu1 fixes this.
  Ubuntu 10.10 amd64, almost vanilla, fresh, minimum install + java (ppa) + postgresql9 (ppa).