[Clfs-support] Cannot login on serial port (embedded ARM, busybox)

[Michael D Labriola]

Lance Jump <lancej29 at gmail.com> wrote on 10/10/2011 01:25:22 AM:

> From: Lance Jump <lancej29 at gmail.com>
> To: clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org
> Date: 10/10/2011 01:26 AM
> Subject: [Clfs-support] Cannot login on serial port (embedded ARM, 
busybox)
> 
> 
> I cannot login into the embedded system to work. I am using the 
> serial port for login. When the system boots, I get a login prompt 
> to which I enter the user (root -- there is currently no password 
> for root). The system reports:
> 
> Jan 1 12:53:27 login[595]: root login on 'ttyS0'
> 
> But then immediately returns to the login prompt. Here is the output
> near the end of the boot and after I try to log inL
> 
> Here is the output at the end of the boot when I try to log in:

I'm not super familiar with busybox or CLFS (yet), but this sounds exactly 
like what happens if you try to log in as root via the serial console if 
ttyS0 isn't in /etc/securetty.  At least that's what happens on my lab 
computers...

-Mike

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