Re: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died

[James Morrison]

--- Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting this error realy often, usualy after playing a bit with
> a fresh-installed gnu.
> 
> After login, and being asked for password:
> 
>   login: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died
> 
> If i type "exec su" at the login prompt, it will spawn a root shell, though.
> 
> I guess the error may be related to problems with an un-fsck'ed root
> filesystem, as ext2fs was started on such some times.
> 
> I'm going to reinstall. If i hit this error again, is there something
> i can try to provide useful information?
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 

 All I can think of is ps -A | grep auth or
showtrans /servers/password



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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2B co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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