[3417] in testers
8.2 login bugs on the sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Fri Apr 3 16:12:22 1998
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 16:12:17 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
When you drop into console login from xlogin, the screen is sometimes
blank, and you need to hit return to be able to see the login prompt.
The first time I tried to punt to console login from xlogin with no
packs attached, it killed X, then restarted X and xlogin without
having tried a console login. The second time I tried, it worked. I
don't actually know that this was related to the packs not being
attached, as opposed to something else.
When you console login, it asks "login: " and then when you give it a
username (say, root), it says "login: Password for root: " instead of
just "Password for root: ".
dm fails to fall back to console login if it can't start X. It used to
try to start X three times and then fall back, but now it tries to
start X once and then hangs (until you hit ^C, at which point it tries
again and hangs, etc.)
I might look in to some of these, but I figured Greg's more familiar with
this code right now.
-- Dan
