From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932794AbVHTBkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:40:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932793AbVHTBkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:40:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63666 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932794AbVHTBkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:40:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:36:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Reuben Farrelly Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 Message-Id: <20050819183600.49f620b0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <430686EA.3000901@reub.net> References: <20050819043331.7bc1f9a9.akpm@osdl.org> <4305DCC6.70906@reub.net> <20050819103435.2c88a9f2.akpm@osdl.org> <430686EA.3000901@reub.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reuben Farrelly wrote: > > ... > >> 4. PAM is complaining about "PAM audit_open() failed: Protocol not suppor > >> ted" and I can't log in as any user including root. I would have picked this > >> was a userspace problem, but it doesn't break with -rc5-mm1, yet reproduceably > >> breaks with -rc6-mm1. Weird. > > > > hm. How come you're able to use the machine then? > > Machine was booting up ok, and things were being written to syslog. Rebooted > into -rc5-mm1 to investigate, and of course could boot into rc6-mm1 in single > user mode, test and bring services up one by one from there. Having two boxes > helped too. > > > Is it possible to get an strace of this failure somehow? > > Not sure if this is needed anymore, as I found that the problem goes away when > I compile in kernel auditing. This not required for -rc5-mm1. Is that change > intended? > Sounds wrong to me, especially if 2.6.13-rc6 doesn't do that. David?