Re: cannot login after 2.3.18ac4

Arthur (arthur@sevenkings.net)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:22:14 -0400


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:39:22 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

>> 2.3.18ac3 was working fine, but after 2.3.18ac4 I cannot login.
>>
>> After rebooting from a backup floppy, I see that mingetty is reporting
>> "tty1: invalid character" in the message log, apparently when I try to
>> login.
>
>Ok if you back out the changes to drivers/char/tty_io.c and
>include/linux/tty.h from ac4 back to the ac3 ones does it fix it ?

On the advice from someone on the Mandrake lists, I recompiled with
gcc 2.95.1 (after applying the usercopy.c patch posted here) and the
problem disappeared.

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