Login Problem in HP-UX 11.00

[Harinath N]

Hi,

In our HP9000 system running HP-UX 11.00(32bit), when we try to login in Console, we get the following error,

{No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"}.

This error is getting displayed for all the users. At the same time telnet is going thru' for all the users without any issues.

Could someone help me on this?

Thanks and Regards,
N.Harinath.

[Tom Geudens · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Take a look at this thread
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x807046ff9277d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Hope it helps,
Tom

[Harinath N]

Hi Tom,

Already we have made the /etc/utmp file to Zero bytes. Only we are yet to reboot the system. Hope this would solve the issue.

Thanks for the immd. response.(I will assign you the points after rebooting the system).

Regards,
N.Harinath.

[Eugen Cocalea]

Hi,

Like the error itself says, your /var/log/utmp doesn't exist or is corrupted.

touch /var/log/utmp will solve the problem.

E.

[Juergen Nagel_1]

Hi,

I know this problem. Please check the permissions /usr/bin/login -r-sr-xr-x. I mean this was the reason. But I must install the system completely new. In my case, I got a lot problem more.
Bye