[Buildroot] cannot log to my build root

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:28:54 +0200
Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast@gmail.com> wrote:

> > This last line "can't access tty; job control turned off" means that
> > the shell has been started directly on /dev/console, which is normal is
> > you start a shell directly from an init.d script, because those scripts
> > are executed with /dev/console as the standard input, standard output,
> > standard err.
> 
> Not that I am aware of.

Huh, sorry ?

> I probably did not express myself properly. I do soo login (which is started
> by getty). The only problem is that whatever I do in "login" I get kicked
> out -
> 
> buildroot login: root
> Password: *[just enter]*
> Login incorrect
> 
> The sad thing is that I do remember that once it did work and I would get by
> just typing the username.

Do you have the default /etc/securetty file, the default /etc/passwd
and the default /etc/shadow files ?

I tested a basic Buildroot build just two days ago, and I could log in
as root on ttyS0 without any problem.

Thomas
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