laptop toshiba 5205-s119: kernel hangs when user logs in

MasquedAvenger

Hey everyone. I have a really frustrating problem that I can't fix. When I login as root, I can login. But, when I try to login as a normal user, it hangs my kernel. I can no longer even ssh into the system. It's all locked cold. Does anyone know what the problem could be? I've never had this happen before.

James

tomk · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject:

I've heard of problems like this that were related to something wrong with pam. Have you tried re-emerging pam?

HTH
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MasquedAvenger · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

Well, I tried kernel version 2.4.24 instead and that works. So, I think it's an issue with the 2.4.22 kernel and this specific laptop that seems to have been fixed somewhere along the line. The only problem now is that alsa will not compile because the source tree for 2.4.24 does not contain a header called modversions.h like 2.4.22 did. *sigh* This sucks....

James

MasquedAvenger · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

Update for anyone watching this thread: modversions.h is created when you compile your kernel (making dep isn't enough; compile at least bzImage too.) Once I did a compile on my source tree ALSA compiled just fine

James