Bug#122142: Happens here too
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 23:09, Craig Small wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:40:16PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > >yay, my install is broken.
> >
> > Please take a look at the log for bug #122750 and see if you can shed
> > any more light on what's going on. In particular, the stuff about
> > inspecting /etc/inittab at different stages of the install to see
> > whether it has the right contents.
> >
> > Did you notice anything unusal during the first stage of installation,
> > like dbootstrap appearing to crash and dump you back at the intro
> > screen?
>
> OK, here were my problems
The specific bit from that bug I was thinking of was this message:
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?
In other words, run through the install up to and including "Install the
Base System", then go to a shell prompt and inspect those two files by
hand to see if they have the right contents.
> * The damn thing in the initial install (fdisk,base install) kept going on
> about tty4 something like "Bummer, tty4 not found"
Right, yeah. I didn't realise when you first mentioned it that these
messages would repeat over and over. Can you file a bug on busybox for
this one? I don't think there's a whole lot that boot-floppies can
easily do to avoid it, given that init is already running by the time
dbootstrap gains control.
> These bugs sound the same to me.
That's what I think too, but I'm at a loss to understand why so few
people can reproduce it. Is your machine a sparc of some kind?
p.
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