Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

Andrew Morton
2005-08-20T01:40:39Z

Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote:
>
> ...
> >> 4. PAM is complaining about "PAM audit_open() failed: Protocol not suppor
> >> ted" and I can't log in as any user including root. I would have picked this
> >> was a userspace problem, but it doesn't break with -rc5-mm1, yet reproduceably
> >> breaks with -rc6-mm1. Weird.
> >
> > hm. How come you're able to use the machine then?
>
> Machine was booting up ok, and things were being written to syslog. Rebooted
> into -rc5-mm1 to investigate, and of course could boot into rc6-mm1 in single
> user mode, test and bring services up one by one from there. Having two boxes
> helped too.
>
> > Is it possible to get an strace of this failure somehow?
>
> Not sure if this is needed anymore, as I found that the problem goes away when
> I compile in kernel auditing. This not required for -rc5-mm1. Is that change
> intended?
>

Sounds wrong to me, especially if 2.6.13-rc6 doesn't do that.

David?