Bug#122750: serial console trouble

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:24:06PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Both /etc/inittab and /etc/securetty look like they should be set up
> appropriately by update_console_info() in baseconfig.c.  Either this
> isn't happening, or something later is overwriting the changes.
> 
> Can someone with a serial console try to reproduce the problem, and see
> if the files have the correct contents immediately after configuring the
> base system, and/or if there is any unusual output on the log terminal?

Just tried CVS head with serial console on hppa, and it works fine, as
it has done for several months.  Tested 3.0.17 on ia64 too.  Both inittab
and securetty are correctly modified.

Richard