David Jarvie wrote: >My system (debian testing) has suddenly stopped letting ordinary users log >on. Root can still function normally, but any other user receives the above >message whenever they try to log on. I have done some investigation into >the problem, and can rule out the following causes: > >bash corruption: I have reinstalled bash, libc6 and libncurses5. Plus, the >same problem occurs with /bin/csh. > >/etc/passwd and /etc/group look fine. > >Permissions on root directories: all have as a minimum, 755. /tmp/ >and /var/tmp have 777. > >Permissions on /home directories: all are owned by the respective user, and >have 755 permissions. > >Disk space: plenty of space on all volumes. > >Permissions on libraries used by /bin/bash: I did a 'ldd /bin/bash': > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) > libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f43000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f3f000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e09000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9c000) >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 18 10:35 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 -> >libdl-2.3.5.so >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9592 Feb 6 23:39 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.3.5.so >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 19 17:46 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> >libncurses.so.5.5 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268396 Oct 14 22:21 /lib/libncurses.so.5.5 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 18 10:35 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 -> >libc-2.3.5.so >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1262704 Feb 6 >23:39 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.5.so >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 19 17:44 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88168 Feb 6 23:38 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so > > >Other libraries in /lib: not sure what their permissions should be. > >The output of 'strace su david -c /bin/bash' is attached. Perhaps somebody >who understands it can comment. > >Any ideas for fixing this would be extremely welcome. > > > What are the permissions on /dev/log and /etc/localtime? These are the two files that the strace reveals bash as being denied access to. Here are those files on my system:
$ ls -lLh /etc/localtime /dev/log srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2006-03-16 23:01 /dev/log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K 2006-03-01 21:16 /etc/localtime Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
