Some weirdness with 2.2.6 (and 2.2.6-ac1)

David B. Rees (dbr@spoke.nols.com)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:52:26 -0700 (PDT)


I've noticed a few weird things happenning with 2.2.6 (and also 2.2.6-ac1)

1. sshd logs weird wtmp/utmp messages about which tty people are connected to:

A line from my last log:

drees ttyp0ÿ¿ ieng9.ucsd.edu Sun Apr 18 23:16 - down (00:17)

This was produced by sshing to my box.
Notice the two funny characters after ttyp0, I was getting these from remote
hosts, but all I could test were from remote solaris and linux (2.0.36) boxes.
Using telnet also produced the same funny characters. `w` and `finger` showed
the same weird characters. The two characters were always the same. Reverting
back to 2.2.5 resulted in normal behavior. This behavior _wasn't_ exhibited
while telneting/sshing to/from a 2.2.6 box on the lan.

2. I got a few "no child processes" messages in both 2.2.6 2.2.6-ac1

These happenned while running various shell scripts. One of them was in the
middle of a `make oldconfig`, the other was in the middle of running the
./configure script for ssh. Again, going back to 2.2.5 hasn't produced these
messages. Up until I booted 2.2.6, 2.2.5 was looking very good, uptime of
20 days, no weirdness at all.

Output from ver_linux script:

Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
Binutils 2.9.1.0.23
Linux C Library 2.1.1
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.1
Linux C++ Library 2.9.0
Procps 2.0.2
Mount 2.9n
Net-tools (1999-01-31)
Kbd 0.94
Sh-utils 1.16

Let me know if you need any more information.

-Dave

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