From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) Description of problem: After upgrading to util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 (and glibc-2.2.4-19) every normal user login which is not a xterm or similar is ending up in an error like: Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell. and then there is no tty allocated (question marks when issuing ps where usually there is pts/nn) and the shell is not working. This occurs ALWAYS when connecting to a text console or telneting into the machine. It seems something is badly broken during pts device allocation/opening. Downgrading to util-linux-2.10s-13.7 solves the issue. I upgraded/downgraded util-linux 3 times with a perfect reproducibility of the bug. The system is a Dell Precision 420 with RH7.1 + all updates LATEST NEWS: the bug is confirmed on a Dell Latitude C800 (the machine I am writing on) with still the old glibc-2.2.2-10 (that is only util-linux updated among the last bunch of updates). The problem disappear again downgrading back util-linux Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.11f.11.7.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 2.connect to a console as a normal user (ctrl+alt+f1...6) or telnet into the machine 3.look at the result.... Actual Results: the pts device does not seem to be properly allocated and the shell does not work as advertised by the error message Expected Results: normal login Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54741 ***