getty acting strange

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

I have two machines running the latest Debian/unstable that are having getty 
problems.

One machine is running 2.6.0-test11 and has gettys on VT's tty2, tty3, and 
tty4 failing with the message:
"failed to query next available vt", this occurs from the following code in /
agetty.c:
                if ((fd = open("/dev/console", O_WRONLY, 0) ) < 0 )
                    error(_("/dev/console: cannot open: %m"));

                do
                {
                    if ((ioctl(fd, VT_OPENQRY, &newvtno ) < 0))
                        error(_("failed to query next available vt"));


Here's the relevant section of strace output:
open("/dev/console", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 1
ioctl(1, 0x5600, 0xbffff7c8)            = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

ls -l /dev/console
crw--w----    1 root     tty        5,   1 Dec 24 02:48 /dev/console


The other machine when running 2.6.0-test11 and 2.6.0 has a problem whereby 
after logging out from a VC the next getty process that init spawns regards 
the terminal as still being in use, there is a delay of a minute or so until 
a login prompt appears on that VC.

Any ideas on what these could be?

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