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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> After updating today (from only a few days ago) I'm getting a |
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> situation that makes it impossible to login. |
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> unable to determine your tty name |
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> The login prompt is there but after typing in the name and hitting |
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> enter I only get the above comment. |
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> Googling on this I find a gentoo bug (245370) Dec 13 that looks like |
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> it is similar.. but the fix mentioned there... backing up to an earlier |
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> version of ncurses (5.6-r2) did not clear my problem. |
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> It may actually be a different bug since I don't see some of the the |
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> other stuff mentioned in that thread. |
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> I haven't ran revdep-rebuild yet... that was my next move but had to |
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> go to a different part of town where I can't really access that |
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> machine. |
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> Does anyone recognize this problem without further diagnostics? If |
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> not then I will be back to the problem machine later tonight and |
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> supply more information. Ideas about what info would be most useful |
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> would be appreciate |
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What packages did you update? It sounds like a udev problem, although |
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I'm admittedly grasping at straws. Knowing what packages you updated |
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will really help. |
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