Re: R4000 Indy login problems

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Stephen M.  Rumble wrote:

On 07.03.09 15:38:40 you wrote:

>> with all the recent kernels I have a strange problem with getty and/ 
>> or login.
> 
> I think that I ran into this a month or two ago, after the 64-bit  
> time_t changes. I believe it had something to do with broken backwards  
> compatibility. jmmv@ figured it out. I'm CC'ing him in case it was  
> never fixed.
> 
> Ah, here it is:
> http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2009/01/pwdmkdb-and-new-timet.html

I was wrong. There *are* core dumps.
Always when I try to login I get an sh.core in the user's home directory.
Then getty restarts.

Sometimes login works though, and I could use the system.

Analyzing the core dump with gdb difficult as the stack is out of bounds.
No trace-back possible.

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