stty: standard input: unable to... [Solved]

[w.hill]

After doing an "emerge --update" yesterday I rebooted my SPARC this morning. Now when it starts it complains with an error message.

"stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations"

This message repeats during start-up with the earliest incident occuring immediately after "Added Swap"

It repeats after every daemon run too.

If I try to login in as root I get "configuration error - unknown item PASS_MIN_LEN"

Cheers.

[AH]

Got any idea which packages that upgraded between the last successful boot and now? I got the same problem.

[w.hill]

I'm trying to work out how to pull of the end of /var/log/emerge.log Hopefully this is ok...

I did the update on the 26th Aug...

athena log # grep "1125" emerge.log > emergAug26.log

athena log # grep "of 17)" emerge26Aug.log | grep emerge | grep completed

It has to be something fairly fundamental to kick in so early in the boot-up process. Which rules out X or anything graphical. I'm running 2.4.31-sparc which has been on the box for a while.

I've highlighted two possible problems. I guess that I'll have to try a roll each of them back to an earlier version to see what happens.

1125022859: ::: completed emerge (1 of 17) sys-apps/man-1.6a to /
1125023521: ::: completed emerge (2 of 17) sys-apps/shadow-4.0.12 to /
1125023940: ::: completed emerge (3 of 17) sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.12 to /
1125024009: ::: completed emerge (4 of 17) app-admin/eselect-0.9.6 to /
1125024074: ::: completed emerge (5 of 17) app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.1 to /
1125024138: ::: completed emerge (6 of 17) x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 to /
1125024213: ::: completed emerge (7 of 17) app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r4 to /
1125024278: ::: completed emerge (8 of 17) app-misc/mime-types-4 to /
1125026194: ::: completed emerge (9 of 17) gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 to /
1125027422: ::: completed emerge (10 of 17) gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 to /
1125028068: ::: completed emerge (11 of 17) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.5 to /
1125028836: ::: completed emerge (12 of 17) app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha01-r2 to /
1125029224: ::: completed emerge (13 of 17) gnome-extra/gcalctool-5.5.42-r2 to /
1125029465: ::: completed emerge (14 of 17) media-sound/sound-juicer-2.10.1-r1 to /
1125030570: ::: completed emerge (15 of 17) gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.3 to /
1125030689: ::: completed emerge (16 of 17) sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre6-r3 to /
1125030863: ::: completed emerge (17 of 17) sys-apps/less-385_p4-r1 to /

[w.hill]

I'm not sure whether or not this helps?

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.31-sparc sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.31-sparc sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers: 2.4.26-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc X arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dlloader eds encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[AH]

I downgraded baselayout to 1.11.13-r1, which was the latest stable lower than 1.12. Problem went away. Will investigate and probably file a bug report.

[w.hill]

I've also rolled back to the earlier version of baselayout and the "stty" error messages have vanished.

I still get configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) when I try to login to the console.

Below is a list of files that were replaced by the package.

etc/conf.d/._cfg0000_rc
/etc/conf.d/._cfg0000_wireless.example
/etc/conf.d/._cfg0000_local.start
/etc/conf.d/._cfg0000_net.example
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_clock
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_bootmisc
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_halt.sh
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_keymaps
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_modules
/etc/init.d/._cfg0000_net.lo
/etc/._cfg0000_services

[creideiki]

That sounds like an error in /etc/login.defs, which belongs to sys-apps/pam-login. Perhaps you shuld try remerging that package and running dispatch-conf again?

[w.hill]

I've re emerged pam-login. I'll have to wait until tomorrow until I can try to log in the actual box. Logging in using ssh hasn't been a problem.

[w.hill]

Re-emerging pam-login didn't fix the problem so I rolled it back from pam-login-4.0.12 to pam-login-3.17.

This fixed the message I guess that's why one version is "stable" and the other "testing"

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions.