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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] update brings no recognition of tty hence no login
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:34:50
Message-Id: 87bpumo7s3.fsf@newsguy.com
1 After updating today (from only a few days ago) I'm getting a
2 situation that makes it impossible to login.
3
4 unable to determine your tty name
5
6 The login prompt is there but after typing in the name and hitting
7 enter I only get the above comment.
8
9 Googling on this I find a gentoo bug (245370) Dec 13 that looks like
10 it is similar.. but the fix mentioned there... backing up to an earlier
11 version of ncurses (5.6-r2) did not clear my problem.
12
13 It may actually be a different bug since I don't see some of the the
14 other stuff mentioned in that thread.
15
16 I haven't ran revdep-rebuild yet... that was my next move but had to
17 go to a different part of town where I can't really access that
18 machine.
19
20 Does anyone recognize this problem without further diagnostics? If
21 not then I will be back to the problem machine later tonight and
22 supply more information. Ideas about what info would be most useful
23 would be appreciated

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Re: [gentoo-user] update brings no recognition of tty hence no login Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@×××××.com>