[2957] in testers
Re: problems updating to 8.0A
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jun 20 16:25:30 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, matt@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 1996 08:44:49 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:25:08 EDT
So, it turns out that the following was, in fact, my fault, as the
release team guessed. If it isn't already resolved, it should be.
Jonathon
> 12) I can't login in console mode. I hit ^P and get a console login
> prompt. when I try to login I get a WArning about ttymon being unable
> to allocate a controlling tty. If I tried to log in as root it prints
> the passwd prompt, but immediatly fails and prints a login prompt
> (without letting me enter a passwd). If I continue to try to login,
> everything is the same, except that I don't get the warning until I
> restart and re-kill X. If I try to log in as me the behavior is very
> similar, except that it after skipping the passwd prompt it gives me
> an "Enter password:" prompt, which, of course, doesn't seem to
> recognize my password.
