2.6.13-mm1 login fails (RE: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...)

2.6.13-mm1 login fails (RE: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...)

[Brown, Len]

 
>As for the inability to log in, this bug may be relevant, 
>given I also had 
>that problem:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166422
>
>There are fixes in the pipeline for util-linux audit 
>interaction in Fedora as 
>well.  I know because I reported those too ;)
>
>> after the scsi initialization which I don't normally see.  
>I've attached 
>> the scsi initialization output.  The PF_NETLINK error 
>messages after the 
>> login prompt in this output are created whenever I try to log in or 
>> connect via ssh.
>
>The workaround by enabling audit support, but obviously a 
>better fix is in the 
>pipeline..
>
>I'm surprised more people aren't discovering these 
>'interactions' due to 
>having audit not turned on.  Does everyone build audit into 
>their kernels?

This sure made my FC4 test boxes hard to use!

CONFIG_AUDIT=y indeed did the trick.

When will I be able to delete CONFIG_AUDIT from my kernel again?

thanks
-Len

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 login fails

[David S. Miller]

From: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:58:15 -0400

> CONFIG_AUDIT=y indeed did the trick.
> 
> When will I be able to delete CONFIG_AUDIT from my kernel again?

It's a regression we accidently added to the netlink socket
family, we will fix it.  But please use the workaround of
enabling CONFIG_AUDIT until we fix it, thanks.