Re: MiNTOS Release 1.4 now available.

[knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)]

Nicholas S Castellano wrote:

> >From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)
> >BTW: Is it a known bug, that /bin/login crashes with a memory
> >violation, if you log in as root? It does not happen as normal user.
> 
> Logins as root work fine on my machine.  I rarely log in as anything
> else. (MiNT 1.11, MiNTos 1.2, TOS (not sure what version), TT030).

Hmpf. You aren't running MultiTOS as I know. I'm not sure if this can
cause the memory violation, but I think I'll have to make some
tests. [A while later.] It happens with just MiNT in the AUTO folder
and without any GEM running. ;(

Hmm, I can't see the message from syslogd that I tried to login as
root. The violation has to be there before (or while?) login sends his
message to syslogd.

I have TOS 3.06 and a TTM194.

> Make sure your login & init are compiled with the latest MiNTlibs
> release.  Also check your .profile or whatever for root, it could be
> that some program in your startup script for root is crashing, and
> causing you to get logged out.

I recompiled init and login with the MiNT library PL44. I don't use
PL45 because of the bug with baserel and strerror, where nobody helped
me after I asked a while ago.

Oh, I'm using tcsh (6.03, baserel) as root-login-shell, but with
/bin/sh (ash) it's the same problem. /bin/login gets killed because of
a memory violation, not the login-shell or anything after that.

> Also, make sure you aren't spawning getty's on any devices that don't
> exist.  If you do, init will crash.  I sent a patch for this a long
> time ago, but it doesn't seem to have found its way into MiNTos.

I only spawn gettys on some virtual consoles, MTOS is started via
execmtos via ttytab on the console.

Bye,
Knarf
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