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Re: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died
From: |
James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:10:41 -0800 (PST) |
--- Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting this error realy often, usualy after playing a bit with
> a fresh-installed gnu.
>
> After login, and being asked for password:
>
> login: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died
>
> If i type "exec su" at the login prompt, it will spawn a root shell, though.
>
> I guess the error may be related to problems with an un-fsck'ed root
> filesystem, as ext2fs was started on such some times.
>
> I'm going to reinstall. If i hit this error again, is there something
> i can try to provide useful information?
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>
All I can think of is ps -A | grep auth or
showtrans /servers/password
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2B co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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