Bug#332198: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#332198: Status of this bug

[Marc Lehmann]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:24:01AM +0200, Alexander Gattin <xrgtn at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:50:07PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I absolutely don't know whether someone is still investigating it. I
> > even don't know if it happens with recent releases of shadow.
> 
> I suspect it does. Sometimes. Actually I think the bug
> is caused by /var/tmp/utmp file being corrupt from time
> to time.

A theory is better than no theory. In any case, I had this problem once
about a week ago, and I usually update to unstable on those machines every
few weeks at leats, so it still seems to be there.

> I propose to add syslog debug statements in the code
> which will provide more information about tty when bug
> _happens_. I think we could enable this debugging code
> and just distribute the shadow with it compiled in,
> because it will increase shadow's verbosity only a bit.

Great idea!

> You can see that even when error happens the code uses
> LOG_DEBUG level.
> 
> If you agree upon this behaviour, I'll generate quilt
> patch and enable it.

I'd be happy to try to reproduce it!

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