Re: Can't log in when using 2.3.[5-6]

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:05:45 +0100


On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 01:27:42PM +0200, Cataldo Thomas wrote:

> The kernel boots with no error messages, so I type my login, press
> enter, and it ask my login ever and ever

The user name is read by getty and control is then handed over to login; it
sounds as though login is silently failing and returning control back to getty.
Sounds suspiciously like this mmap problem other people are seeing - see other
threads in l-k.

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