Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@xxxxxxxx> 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?
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