Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:54:47 +0200 | From | FORT David ou popo <> | Subject | Re: Test 8 Kernel Unable to get the password prompt? |
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Miles Lane wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David Freedom wrote: <p>> I tried configuring the kernel to the least amount of <br>> configured options to almost none and I still cannot <br>> get the password prompt. <br>> <br>> My system hangs and is unable to do anything. <br>> unfortunetly the only thing I can do is power down my <br>> PC the incorrect and most unfortunate way leading to <br>> filesys errors upon reboot to an older saved kernel <br>> image. <p>Are you getting both the username and password prompts <br>and then getting nothing after entering the password? <br>This is a behavior I am seeing on a laptop Pentium II. <br>In my case, I can CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] to get to another <br>VT. All attempts to log in any VT display meet the same <br>fate. Also, attempting to log in using GDM fail in <br>this way. In my case, the UI GDM continues to respond. <p>Lastly, trying to CTRL-ALT-DEL to initiate a shutdown <br>does cause the TERM and KILL signals to be sent to <br>all processes. Then the shutdown process locks up <br>after a message is printed about unloading the <br>keyboard driver. <p>Interestingly, if I boot in single mode ("linux single" <br>at the boot prompt), and then load GDM, I am able to <br>log on with no trouble. <p>I have sent a message to the maintainer of the <br>shadow-utils package, but have gotten no response. <p>I suspect this problem has to do with a fsck-up on <br>my part in getting util-linux configured properly when <br>I built it. I rebuilt util-linux with the sources <br>pointed to by Changes several development kernel <br>revisions ago (~2.4.0-test7). <p> Miles <p>- <br>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in <br>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org <br>Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a></blockquote> Hum, i used to have such problems, they seems to disappear when i stopped including <br>ACPI support. <br>hope, it helped....... <pre>-- %--IRIN->-Institut-de-Recherche-en-Informatique-de-Nantes-----------------% % FORT David, % % 7 avenue de la morvandière 0240726275 % % 44470 Thouare, France fortd@ensinfo.univ-nantes.fr % % ICU:54999224 AIM: enlighted popo fort@irin.univ-nantes.fr % %--LINUX-HTTPD-PIOGENE----------------------------------------------------% % -datamining | .~. % % -networking | /V\ L I N U X % % -opensource | // \\ >Fear the Penguin< % % -GNOME/enlightenment/GIMP | /( )\ % % feel enlighted.... | ^^-^^ % %-------------------------------------------------------------------------% .</pre> </html>
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