From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Wagner Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:50:05 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] cannot log to my build root In-Reply-To: References: <20101214142544.7863d2d2@surf> <20101214150520.253b9bae@surf> <20101214154228.51a969b6@surf> <20101214160558.325cddcb@surf> Message-ID: <4D07922D.9090309@carallon.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 14/12/2010 15:28, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > and you should see a login prompt on this serial line. > > It's the /etc/inittab file that decides on which terminals a login > prompt should appear, by starting a getty program on those terminals. > > What does your /etc/inittab look like ? > > > > 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. I have also seen this. In my case the problem was that I had built an eglibc toolchain that had configured too much out (I think it was option OPTION_EGLIBC_NIS). Busybox built fine, only login as root failed. Never got around to debugging it as much faster just to change my toolchain to include the necessary option. Will -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Wagner will_wagner at carallon.com Development Manager Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7371 2032 Carallon Ltd, Studio G20, Shepherds Building, Rockley Rd, London W14 0DA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: