>From: "D. Jay Newman" <jay@sprucegrove.com>
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:13:58 -0400 (EDT)

>I did a sup Sunday night, and competely rebuild the system on my test-
>machine.

>Once I rebuilt the world, I can't login normally, and I can't use the
>old kernel.
>
>I get a login prompt; the system sits for a few seconds, then I get another
>login prompt (repeat until bored).

This was a bug in /usr/bin/login, which has since been fixed.  An
uninitialized variable made getpass() coredump, so login punted.  I
ran into the exact same problem.
-- 
Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>                http://www.shore.net/~mikel
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken