Re: Unable to determine your tty name error.

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote:

+++ mind entropy [2013-05-07 20:40 +0530]:

> Hi,
>
> �� I managed to boot up multistrap but during login I get a "Unable to
> determine your tty name" error and does not login. What seems to be wrong?

This comes from 'login'. Maybe /dev/pts is not mounted? maybe some
device entry is missing? Can you give any more details on what you did
to configure your rootfs? (Setting up /etc/fstab, user entries in
paswd, console or serial device config)

Wookey
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Thanks for the reply.

fstab:

devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

passwd:
root::0:0:/root:/bin/sh
bin:x:1:1:bin:/dev/null:/bin/false
nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged user:/dev/null:/bin/false

inittab:

T1::sysinit:/bin/mount -t proc proc /proc
T2::sysinit:/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
T3::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/pts
T4::sysinit:/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname

T5::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
T6::sysinit:/bin/mount -a

T0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttySAC0 38400 vt100

dev entries:

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 May 9 20:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root    4096 Jun 22 2012 ..
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   5, 1 May 8 23:08 console
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1, 3 May 8 01:06 null
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jan 1 1970 pts
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 0 May 9 20:27 tty
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 0 May 9 20:28 tty0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 1 May 9 20:28 tty1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 2 May 9 20:28 tty2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 3 May 9 20:28 tty3
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   4, 4 May 9 20:28 tty4
crw------- 1 root root 204, 64 Jan 1 1970 ttySAC0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 204, 65 May 8 01:06 ttySAC1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 204, 66 May 8 01:06 ttySAC2

Now I get the following error:

login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort

-Gautam.