Terminal handling broken?

[Martin Zielinski]

Frank Meerkoetter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm running Samba on a small arm-based system. My problem is
> that the terminal handling seems to be broken for the samba utilities.
> 
> # /mnt/data/smbpasswd -a media
> New SMB password:Retype new SMB password:Added user media.
> 
> Smbpasswd doesn't prompt me for a password.
> An strace looks like this:
> 
[...]
> ioctl(18, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B115200 opost isig -icanon -echo ...})
> = 0
> ioctl(18, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE or TCSETSF, {B115200 opost -isig -icanon -echo
> ...}) = 0
> write(18, "New SMB password:", 17New SMB password:)      = 17
> read(18, "", 1)                         = 0
> ioctl(18, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE or TCSETSF, {B115200 opost isig -icanon -echo
> ...}) = 0
> close(18)                               = 0
[...]
> TIA,
>    Frank
> 
> 
Looks like your serial interface is in non-blocking mode.
What's your kernel version and your getty commandline (in inittab)?
What does stty say?

~ Martin

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