Hi all,
I have a tonidoplug (ARM plugcomputer, running ubuntu jaunty) that
I've broken somehow. I can ssh to it as root, but I can't ssh as a
regular user nor (once in as root) can I sudo, su or login as a
regular user.
I boot from a USB drive, so it's not a big deal, technically, to just
make another boot drive. However the users will howl if I take it
offline to fix it :-). Instead, I'm posting this as a puzzle that
interested people can try to help solve without rebooting :-).
1. Originally I had a good USB boot drive built as per tonido
instructions (first partition is /, optional swap second partition,
make first partition active and untar modules.tar.gz and rootfs.tar.gz
in the first partition).
2. I stopped the plugcomputer and brought that flash drive to another
computer, attached a laptop harddrive in USB enclosure (I wanted to
use the bigger drive as my new drive on the plugcomputer, there's only
one USB port, unfortunately).
3. I did a tgz of the flash drive and extracted that onto the first
partition of the laptop drive.
When I booted with the new drive all was well.
After installing a whole bunch of other packages though (I don't know
what all those packages are anymore, but just installing them should
not have broken jaunty this way) and miscellaneous fiddling, I found
out that I couldn't ssh as a regular user anymore, or (from root) sudo
as a regular user.
strace doesn't help much. e.g., when I do: "#strace -ff sudo su -u
tiger bash" at the end all I get is:
execve("/bin/bash", ["bash"], [/* 16 vars */] <unfinished ...>
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
which I know, and which doesn't tell me why.
I'll certainly just install things again over the weekend. But if I
can avoid the downtime and perhaps provide some entertainment to the
people on the list, all the better :-).
tiger
--
Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com
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Even Tom Lane said: "Or, if you're worried
about actions from functions, use a trigger
to do the logging. There are approximately
no cases where a rule is really better than
a trigger :-( "
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