Re: Linux v2.6.9 (Strange tty problem?)

[Russell King]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:07:42AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 03:41, Paul wrote:
> > permanently unresponsive. (this burst of 'noise', seems to happen
> > periodicly, and is a repetition of this:
> > ~}#!}!}!} }8}!}$}"} }"}&} } } } }%}&]O='}'}"}(}"D~ 	)
> 
> Thats a PPP LCP conf request as far as I can decode it. You've got
> a stuck pppd somewhere - thats a minor bug in 2.6.9rc and 2.6.9 that got
> introduced by the tty changes. I'll try and fix it ASAP if Paul doesn't
> beat me to it.

I'm seeing random failures of krb5 login with 2.6.9 kernels - which has
happened somewhere between 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9-rc3.  It's proving impossible
to debug because stracing eklogin results in the problem completely
vanishing.

Without the strace, it's reproducable in about 50% of cases.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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