Dan Osterrath wrote:
Hi,
I've tried to compile the current rc1 for kde 3.5.0. Everything build
fine and even seems tu run fine except for kdm. Everytime I try to login
it fails with the error message "setlogin for <username> failed:
Function not implemented".
I investigated a little bit and found out that setlogin from glibc
always fails. So I wrote a little test program:
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#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 2) {
printf("no login given: %s <loginname>\n", argv[0]);
exit(2);
}
if (setlogin(argv[1]) < 0) {
printf("could not setlogin to %s\n", argv[1]);
exit(1);
} else {
printf("setlogin successful\n");
exit(0);
}
}
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When compiling the gcc already shows the problem:
-bash-3.00# gcc setlogintest.c -o setlogintest
/tmp/cc2G2SBZ.o(.text+0x4f): In function `main':
: warning: warning: setlogin is not implemented and will always fail
That's just a warning. Your program still compiles
And indeed in the glibc 2.3.6 source there were only two implementations
for setlogin. One for hurd and one for generic, which always returns
"not implemented".
So what's wrong here? Is my glibc faulty? Is there anything missing? Or
is kdm (whose source code is derived from xdm) buggy and uses a not yet
implemented function?
Could anyone test the upper test program?
I compiled it
andy:~$ gcc setlogintest.c -o setlogintest
setlogintest.c: In function ‘main’:
setlogintest.c:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function ‘exit’
setlogintest.c:10: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function ‘exit’
setlogintest.c:13: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function ‘exit’
/tmp/ccAfTStR.o: In function `main':
setlogintest.c:(.text+0x4f): warning: warning: setlogin is not implemented and will always fail
And despite the warnings it compiled and does run but it doesn't work
andy:~$ /home/andy/setlogintest eddie
could not setlogin to eddie
However, Gnome's gdm works fine so maybe it's not important? FWIW I'm using
glibc-cvs from the 6th of nov
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