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

[Bill Slaughter]

I have looked on the forum, and the protection /ownership of my /etc/utmp file is correct.
644 root:root

This problem has just started, after maintenance (cabling, new F/W cards).

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

[Lasse Knudsen]

Where do you get this.

Have you changed any suid programs (eg. dtterm ) ?

[Rainer_1]

reset your utmp

>/etc/utmp

[Shannon Petry]

Did you install spaceware?
I have seen this lots of times. There installer creates an entry in /etc/inittab which needs to be modified. (You dont mention it, so probably not) but here is the change.
spbd:234:respawn:/etc/SpaceWare/spaceballd -d /dev/tty1p0
to
spbd:234:respawn:/etc/SpaceWare/spaceballd -d /dev/tty1p0 /dev/null 2>&1

If not, reset the utmp file by copying /dev/null . I.E. cp /dev/null /etc/utmp. chown root:root /etc/utmp; chmod 644 /etc/utmp. You may need to redo this for /etc/utmpx if you still have problems.

Regards,
Shannon

[Brad Marks]

I'm running HP-UX 10.20 and had this problem only with the modem ports. I learned that /etc/inittab's first entry (id) has to be four characters in length. I changed a4 to a004 and the error went away.

Hope this (maybe) helps,
Brad