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I installed mgetty as a replacement to uugetty...

All seemed fine and then when a new user of our system logged
in a message dl_boot: open /dev/zero failed! appears.

Running 1.2.13 slackware 3.0...
permissions are 666 and owned by root.sys on the device.

I have another linux machine running same that states permissions
are correct. Is there a lock file or something for this?

I have 200 users who cannot log in.
Nice.
Mgetty... Stay away

Please help.... fast!

--Rick

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Mgetty is not known for any such problems, so there has to be
something else that is wrong with your system. This is just a wild
guess, but "/dev/zero" needs to be opened when loading ELF
binaries. This might mean, that your copy of "/lib/ld-linux.so.1" is
defective. Make sure, that you have a recent release of "ld-linux" and
double-check permissions and symbolic links; you might have to use a
rescue disk to do this ("yard" is an execellent tool for building
rescue disks!). Another helpful tool is "ldd", when applied to an
executable, it will tell you if all libraries/symbols could be
resolved (for the latter, you need to pass the option "-r").

Good luck,

Markus
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I assume you've checked the /etc/password file to see that the
user's home directory is correctly set?

Quote:>I installed mgetty as a replacement to uugetty...

>All seemed fine and then when a new user of our system logged
>in a message dl_boot: open /dev/zero failed! appears.

>Running 1.2.13 slackware 3.0...
>permissions are 666 and owned by root.sys on the device.

>I have another linux machine running same that states permissions
>are correct. Is there a lock file or something for this?

>I have 200 users who cannot log in.
>Nice.
>Mgetty... Stay away

>Please help.... fast!

>--Rick

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