Re: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died

[Joachim Nilsson]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:08:44AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> > Here's some followup information from my instance of the
> > same error. What can I do to fix this without reinstalling?
> > # ps -A | grep auth
> > root        5  - So    0:00.05      /hurd/auth
> > # showtrans /servers/password
> > /hurd/password
> > Comparing the /hurd/* servers to a freshly unpacked archive (using
> > gnu-20020816) I can only conclude they are identical, so there must
> > be something else wrong.
> I had some problem with unfsck'ed filesystem when it happened. have
> you mounted the ext2 filesystem unfsck'ed any time during installation
> or something like that?

Nope, I almost always reboot to Linux after a crash/hang to make sure
fsck is run. This time though I got your error when trying to login.
However, it seems I've escaped the problem by

        login> exec su
        hurd# su -
        hurd# apt-get update && apt-get dselect-upgrade

This gave me an upgraded set of hurd servers and some other
packages. Maybe we can avoid this error if we reinstall the
hurd servers every time? I need to replicate this to make sure.
If I get the error again and can fix it I'll post to this thread
again.


Regards
 /Joachim

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