Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Unable to login with DL 1.4RC2

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:

> Serge Leschinsky wrote:
>> Please check syslog-ng options. Below the message I sent to the  
>> list some time ago:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> I'm still not sure, but it seems to be correlated: if syslog-ng  
>> starts before an
>> attempt to login (ssh or console - it doesn't matter) the login process is
>> getting stuck.
>>
>> As a workaround you can add "--no-caps" to the daemon parameters.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> I thought the issue went away after syslog-ng update....
> My inability to login did not occur immediately but only after DL had
> been running for some days or weeks. My /var/log/messages shows things like:
>
> Oct 20 16:04:55 src@me login[8918]: pam_unix(login:session): session
> opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
> Oct 20 16:04:55 src@me login[12927]: ROOT LOGIN  on 'tty1'
> Oct 20 16:07:31 src@me login[8918]: pam_unix(login:session): session
> closed for user root
>
> The last line is me doing CTRL+C, I think. So it looks to me as if login
> proceeded okay; I guess it is whatever daemon responds to a login (after
> a login has succeeded) that is failing (agetty?)
>
> But I am trying your workaround, thanks Serge - definitely one I would
> never have thought of!

This is weird.
I have my servers running for weeks with the grsec version of DL and  
never experienced this issue.
I'll compiling a new server version when I get a chance, so you can  
test a newer release.


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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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