On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:33:46AM +0000, BSD wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded from 6.0-RELEASE to -STABLE today (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE > #0: Thu Nov 24 00:40:48 WET 2005). After the upgrade I couldn't login > anymore, so I thought I probably erased master.passwd by mistake with > mergemaster, and rebooted into single user mode. Here I reset both root > and my user account password, and processed to multiuser, only to fail > the login again. Both on KDE and console. I rebooted again into single > user, and changed both password to 3 characters. Now I could login, but > every word I typed would have some letters wiped out (that was why the > login was failing, it was "eating" my password). > > A quick 'top' inspection showed powerd using ~30% CPU, which is > abnormal. I killed it, and voila! No more letter-eating. I started it > again, and back to the same. > > powerd has always worked fine, it started behaving like this when I > upgraded just an hour ago. This is a centrino laptop from acer. > Comments, suggestions ? >
There is a recent commit from Nate Lawson dated 2005-11-24 05:29:15 UTC that should fix that issue. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
