--- mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.c.wtmplock	Thu Jun  6 12:29:30 1996
+++ mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.c	Sun Sep 29 17:57:56 2002
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@
 	struct utmp ut;
 	int ut_fd;
 	struct utmp *utp;
+	void locktimeout();
 
 	utmpname (_PATH_UTMP);
 	setutent ();
@@ -158,7 +163,10 @@
 	endutent ();
 
 	if ((ut_fd = open (_PATH_WTMP, O_APPEND | O_WRONLY)) >= 0) {
+	        (void)signal(SIGALRM, locktimeout);
+		(void)alarm(3);
 		flock (ut_fd, LOCK_EX);
+		(void)alarm(0);
 		write (ut_fd, &ut, sizeof (ut));
 		flock (ut_fd, LOCK_UN);
 		close (ut_fd);
@@ -437,3 +445,18 @@
 	exit (0);
 }
 
+void locktimeout()
+{
+#ifdef USE_SYSLOG
+       openlog (progname, LOG_PID, LOG_AUTH);
+        syslog(LOG_ALERT, "Lock failed on wtmp");
+       closelog ();
+#else
+        int fd;
+        char buf[]="Lock failed on wtmp\n";
+       if ((fd = open ("/dev/console", 1)) >= 0) {
+               write (fd, buf, strlen (buf));
+               close (fd);
+       }
+#endif
+}