Bug 122731 – Login not substituting \char sequences

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description ta2002 2006-02-13 13:40:42 UTC]

If I understand this (and I certainly might not), getty waits
for a user to try to log in, and then calls login to do the
work. I get the \char substitutions for getty, but then, if
the login fails (bad user or password), then login does not
substitute for these sequences. Showing it probably will
describe it better (the user "foo" does not exist). I see:

This is machine.localdomain.loc (Linux x86_64 2.6.15-gentoo-r1) 12:00:00

machine login: foo
Password:
Login incorrect

This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t


machine login:
Login timed out after 60 seconds.


This is machine.localdomain.loc (Linux x86_64 2.6.15-gentoo-r1) 12:01:30

machine login:


This happens on my other machines (x86), as well.

I have a rather standard installation with nothing unusual,
except that I do NOT use pam.

$ emerge -p info
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -msse2 -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-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/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -msse2 -mfpmath=sse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_NZ.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en ru"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt css cups dga directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr emboss encode exif expat faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac freetype gd ggi gif gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk2 idea idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 javascript jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms libcaca libwww live lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mbox memlimit mng motif mp3 mpeg mpi mysql nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pcre pdflib perl png ppds qt quicktime readline real rtc samba scanner sdl silc speex spell ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd vorbis wifi xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-13 14:02:55 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103796 ***