[fedora-arm] Help configuring a serial port on an ARM device running Fedora 17

Brendan Conoboy blc at redhat.com
Tue Mar 26 22:00:24 UTC 2013


On 03/26/2013 02:57 PM, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
> So I am at a loss about why ttyS2 works and ttyS1 does not. As
> far as I can tell with strace, both instances receive the username and
> the password correctly. What can I do to diagnose this further? Do I
> need to modify something else to enable the second login tty?

Check /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure.  Assuming you typed the 
right password, it's probably an issue with root logging into an 
"unsecure" tty or some pam issue.  Are you logging in as root or as an 
unprivileged user?  This doesn't seem arm specific.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com


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