[SOLVED] Password prompt appears twice at boot up login

I boot up to the regular text login and startx manually. I recently updated after perhaps 4-5 days days and updated my /etc/*.conf.pacnew files as well.
After rebooting, I was presented with the text login, entered my username and password, and after pressing enter was presented with the same password prompt again. I re-entered my password and was presented with the prompt as usual. Any suggestions on what files might have led to this? I merged /etc/pam.d/login with /etc.pam.d/login.pacnew (which had many fewer lines). Could there be a line in there that's causing this? I'm not familiar with what controls the text login at boot.
Last edited by jwhendy (2012-09-14 21:59:13)

Here is part of my auth.log . First I logged as a root on tty3 and then logged off and logged again as a regular user. Login session was started twice in both cases. The very end is unclear to me, some messages from gnome-shell. Not sure if they are related at all.
Sep 8 20:33:14 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep 8 20:33:14 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
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Sep 8 20:33:17 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user root
Sep 8 20:33:17 localhost login: pam_mail(login:session): pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL
Sep 8 20:33:23 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user mcmilton by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep 8 20:33:23 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user mcmilton by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep 8 20:33:23 localhost login: pam_ck_connector(login:session): process already registered with ConsoleKit
Sep 8 20:33:23 localhost login: LOGIN ON tty3 BY mcmilton
Sep 8 20:33:25 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user mcmilton
Sep 8 20:33:25 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user mcmilton
Sep 8 20:33:25 localhost login: pam_mail(login:session): pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL
Sep 8 20:33:26 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.32" (uid=1000 pid=1535 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:26 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.32" (uid=1000 pid=1535 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:27 localhost polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.32, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale ru_RU.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Sep 8 20:33:29 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:30 localhost polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.45 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale ru_RU.UTF-8)
Sep 8 20:33:32 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:32 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:32 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:32 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Sep 8 20:33:33 localhost dbus[442]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.45" (uid=1000 pid=2192 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=1332 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")

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