can't login!

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 7 02:11:15 UTC 2009


On Monday 05 January 2009 08:36, tjzkzs wrote:
> hi, all
> I am new to busybox, i am porting linux-2.6.27 to atmel board at91sam9260ek, when kernel run up and mount fs, i can go into busybox's init indicated by: 
> init started: BusyBox v1.7.0 (2009-01-05 11:34:46 CST)
> starting pid 333, tty '': '/etc/init.d/rcS', after this, it go to login process, but when i enter the loginname and password,  i  got:
> process  '/sbin/getty  115200  ttyS0 '  (pid  334)  exited.  Scheduling  it  for  restart.

> what's wrong?

Obviously getty exited. Many possible reasons:

* It did not find /bin/login executable.
* /bin/login is not executable.
* /bin/login is executable and it was executed by getty
  successfully, but it can't find such a user.

You need to debug it. look into getty.c and login.c
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vda




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