Created attachment 716755 [details] strace log when connecting from a Linux machine If you have telnet-server installed and enabled through xinetd, if you try to telnet to the Fedora 18 machine from another Linux machine, it immediately closes the connection after printing the /etc/issue.net file: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.7.2-201.fc18.i686.PAE on an i686 (3) Connection closed by foreign host. If you look in /var/log/secure on the Fedora 18 machine, you see: Mar 26 17:04:36 C-STU11-Fedora login: FATAL: can't reopen tty: No such file or directory If you telnet from a Windows machine, it works. I changed in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet the server part to: server = /bin/strace server_args = -o /var/tmp/telnet.trace /usr/sbin/in.telnetd and collected strace logs from connecting from Linux and Windows. I'll attach these.
Created attachment 716756 [details] strace log when connecting from a Windows machine
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Is this still an issue? I think it should be fixed now.
Nothing has happened with this package since I reported this bug, no updates have been issued (for Fedora 18), so yes this is still broken. We fixed it in our own systems by removing this package and installing krb5-appl-servers instead. I tried it on Fedora 19 and it works fine both as a systemd service or xinetd service, and nothing has changed in the code. The compiler flags have changed. Maybe the package in Fedora 18 was just broken by the compiler somehow.
I should have mentioned that this bug is actually caused by /usr/bin/login from util-linux package. Issue should be fixed in util-linux - 2.23.1-2. util-linux update should land in f18-updates-testing soon.
util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18
Package util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-14142/util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Why was this update pushed? Does anyone read the QA reports on the admin.fedoraproject.org site? This is still very broken.
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