I'm currently upgrading from MDK7.2 (glibc-2.1) to the cooker development distribution (glibc-2.2). In this process user login with kernels 2.4.0-0.x is non-functional. Also a an older 2.3.48 kernel shows the same behavior. Everything seem OK, but after supplying username and password _nothing_ happens until I'm back at the login prompt after a _long_ time-out. Remote logging in works, but also here with a long delay before getting the bash prompt. No problem occurs with 2.2.x kernels! Which packages are involved in the login process? I've upgraded the following ones, which packages has still to be upgraded (and which are redundant, wrt the login phase)? MAKEDEV-23.0.6-4mdk bash-2.0.4-15mdk getty_ps-2.0.7j-13mdk libncurses5-5.2-12mdk mingetty-0.9.4-14mdk mgetty-1.1.22-2mdk modutils-2.3.23-3mdk ncurses-5.2-12mdk pam-0.72-14mdk perl-5.6000-24mdk pwdb-0.61-4mdk shadow-utils-20000826-3mdk util-linux-2.10r-2mdk