[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#558731: login: Login fails on console / textmode. Prints numerours "^@" and then Login incorrect.

[Anes Lihovac]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1
Severity: normal

When logging in on a console / textmode either as root or user, the login fails, and then the
screen is filled with the chracters ^@. This happens for both, a correct and worng password. While
the screen is filled with the characters ^@, when caps lock is pressed, the output of the charcters
^@ stops, until caps lock is pressed again. 

I don't know if it matters. This is happening on a MSI Wind U100 Netbook. When pressing caps 
lock under X a Caps Lock LED is activated. On console this isn't happening.
   

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-7   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                1.1.0-4    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.1.0-4    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.0-4    Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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