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Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18
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Joachim Nilsson |
Subject: |
Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18 |
Date: |
22 Apr 2003 17:50:16 +0200 |
When I got this message I found the dirty workaround "exec su" on the
login prompt. I think GNU/Wolfgang or someone mentioned that in an
earlier message on some of the GNU mailing lists.
This obviously has something to do with the auth server, but I think
the problem is simpler than that most of the time it appears, because:
I noticed the problem often happened when I didn't shutdown the
Hurd correctly and therefore I got filesystem corruption. One time
the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files where completely out of sync.
Another time it was the /servers/password "file" that was missing[1].
And so forth.
If you do get this problem try "exec su" at login and poke around in
the /lost+found/ directory - or like I do nowadays - keep a PartImage
partition image, or a redundant Hurd installation. It helps when things
go bad[2] like this.
Regards
/Joachim
[1] - The Hurd password server (/hurd/password) is usually "mounted"
there.
[2] - Once I was running an Mgp slideshow in X to demonstrate that the
Hurd actually existed and worked. On the same Hurd box I also compiled
Emacs. During the demo Mgp suddenly croaked between two slides and
somehow got the idea to display the Emacs source code ... extremely bad!
A good reminder that not everything is all and well with the Ext2fs
server. :-)
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 16:52, ddavies@ddavies.net wrote:
> Huh. I reinstalled a Hurd system this weekend and have the same
> trouble. I tried 'ql' and 'su' with no luck. Maybe 'su -' will get
> it but I thought I tried that too. I was able to log in as root after
> the multiuser boot, but after some point (sorry lots of stuff going on
> and didn't notice exactly when/why). I thought maybe I corrupted some
> authentication file or something. I am in the middle of something
> more important to me right now (oskit/mach entropy), so I can't look
> too hard at this now, but I thought I'd mention my experience anyway.
> If I do look further I'll post... Dmitry -- you might want to ask
> around on the #hurd IRC channel on irc.debian.org for help if you
> don't get an answer here.
>
> Derek
>
> Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> writes:
>
> > Dmitry V. Zhulanov wrote:
> >
> > > And the problem appears after reboot my box:
> > > after typing login root and password, hurd prints "Authentication
> > > failure: (ipc/mig) server died". Others hard rebuts, fsck, login root
> > > leads to same result.
> > >
> > > How can i fix this?
> >
> > This was discussed in February, but there was no conclusion. The auth
> > server seems to crash. Type "su -" in the "login> " prompt.
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""
> >
> >
> >
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- Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18, Dmitry V. Zhulanov, 2003/04/22
- Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18, Ognyan Kulev, 2003/04/22
- Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18, ddavies, 2003/04/22
- Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18,
Joachim Nilsson <=
- Re: Help-hurd Digest, Vol 5, Issue 18, Wolfgang Jaehrling, 2003/04/22