pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)

After doing an “emerge –puD world” on my Gentoo box, the following error appeared and wouldn’t let me update my system: “sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2)”

So I searched the internet and tried a few things and found this solution, that seemed to help a lot of people:

emerge –buildpkgonly –nodeps shadow && emerge -C pam-login && emerge –usepkgonly shadow

After executing the above, my system was ready to go again. Hope this one helps a few people.

For more info on the above topic do check out the gentoo forums.