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CLFS Chapter 7 Can't Login. :-(

I have been trying to figure this out for almost three days now and I am stumped.

I had to follow "If You Are Going to Boot" because I was compiling from a 32-bit machine to a 64-bit machine. I kinda got used to copy and paste for the configuration tidbit but... whatever.

After several days of tinkering with the kernel (13th compile I think) I finally got a bootable kernel.

However.... I can't log in.

It shows a login prompt:

Code:



none(login):

However no matter what I type into the username, it never asks for a password but rather repeats back with the login screen almost as if nothing happened. There is a small delay like it is thinking about something but nothing is printed to the screen.

/etc/passwd:

Code:

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

/etc/inittab:

Code:



# Begin /etc/inittab



id:3:initdefault:



si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit



l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0

l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1

l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2

l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3

l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4

l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5

l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 6



ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now



su:S016:once:/sbin/sulogin



1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600

2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty2 9600

3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty3 9600

4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty4 9600

5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty5 9600

6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty6 9600



# End /etc/inittab

/etc/group:

Code:



root:x:0:

bin:x:1:

sys:x:2:

kmem:x:3:

tty:x:4:

tape:x:5:

daemon:x:6:

floppy:x:7:

disk:x:8:

lp:x:9:

dialout:x:10:

audio:x:11:

video:x:12:

utmp:x:13:

usb:x:14:

cdrom:x:15:

Hi what happens if you create a user and group

Quote:

Originally Posted by spiky0011 (Post 4683844)

Hi what happens if you create a user and group

Its far to early in the CLFS build for that.

The useradd and groupadd commands don't exist yet and wont until chapter 10. :-/

The "shadow" package that contains useradd and groupadd can't be installed in a cross compiled manner. :-/

Hi

Did you follow chapter 7.1 correctly as root

Code:

chown -v clfs ${CLFS}

Quote:

Originally Posted by spiky0011 (Post 4684233)

Hi

Did you follow chapter 7.1 correctly as root

Code:

chown -v clfs ${CLFS}

Yes I did but just to be sure I just completely redid chapter 7 and when I rebooted...

You guessed it. Same problem. :-(

Is there anyway to completely bypass the login (just for now) and still have multiple TTY's?

Edit:

I was able to get the system to boot by passing "init=/bin/bash rw" to the kernel, running "source /root/.bash_profile", and then running "exec init single" but I only get one TTY. So the problem lies in multi-user mode.

I tried running "agetty 9600 TTY2 &" which DOES create a new TTY but the new tty is running in multi-user mode and asks for a login which also doesn't work. :-/

Is there any way to create extra TTY'S in single user mode?

I gave up on the project and in a fit of drunken rage deleted the entire partition and all the files in it.

I think I will try LFS rather than CLFS and build a 32-bit linux on my 64-bit computer. If that doesn't work then I will give it the middle finger and call it a piece of ****. xD

Thanks for the help anyway.

Hi

Sorry I could help more But I have never done clfs.
I hope you get better results with lfs