Bug#332198: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#332198: login: unable to determine TTY name, got /dev/pts/1

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:13:58PM +0200, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> I actually think that the "unable to determine TTY name" from login is
> maybe not *the* cause of the problem.

Lucky day:

   cerebro ~/pserv# fuji
   rlogin: connection closed.
   cerebro ~/pserv# apt-get install xmltv
   E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
   E: Unable to lock the list directory
   [Exit 100] 
   cerebro ~/pserv# 
   [Exit 100] 
   cerebro ~/pserv# fuji
   fuji ~# tail /var/log/messages 
   Oct  7 07:51:22 fuji named[1126]: USAGE 1128664282 1128426682 CPU=0.050992u/0.041993s CHILDCPU=0.050992u/0.034994s
   Oct  7 07:51:22 fuji named[1126]: NSTATS 1128664282 1128426682 A=152 PTR=86
   Oct  7 07:51:22 fuji named[1126]: XSTATS 1128664282 1128426682 RR=84 RNXD=7 RFwdR=12 RDupR=1 RFail=0 RFErr=0 RErr=1 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0 SSysQ=79 SAns=145 SFwdQ=103 SDupQ=840 SErr=34 RQ=238 RIQ=0 RFwdQ=103 RDupQ=16 RTCP=0 SFwdR=12 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=127 SNXD=42 RUQ=0 RURQ=0 RUXFR=0 RUUpd=0
   Oct  7 07:57:11 fuji pam_rhosts_auth[6540]: allowed to root at cerebro as root
   Oct  7 07:57:11 fuji login[6541]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
   Oct  7 07:57:11 fuji login[6542]: ROOT LOGIN  on `pts/10' from `cerebro'
   Oct  7 07:57:11 fuji login[6541]: (pam_unix) session closed for user root
   Oct  7 07:57:18 fuji pam_rhosts_auth[6547]: allowed to root at cerebro as root
   Oct  7 07:57:18 fuji login[6548]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
   Oct  7 07:57:18 fuji login[6549]: ROOT LOGIN  on `pts/10' from `cerebro'

Just happened a few minutes ago: I tried to install xmltv on "fuji", and
as you can see the first try failed, the second worked. It was on the same
tty, and long after bootup, and NOT the first login, and finally did not
complain about the tty name.

So there seem to be two problems, my log-in problem and a suboptimal error
message, which are probably independent of each other.

Unfortunately, that was before upgrading to 4.0.12, i.e. still with 4.0.3
(so far it happens with 4.0.11 and 4.0.3).

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