[debian-knoppix] Should there be gaps in my /dev/tty's?
Hi,
This looks odd to me:
# cd /dev
# ls tty?
tty0 tty1 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty7 tty8 tty9
So tty2 and tty6 aren't there.
Also there are other gaps in the sequence:
# ls tty[0-9][0-9]
tty10 tty13 tty17 tty21 tty24 tty29 tty32 tty36 tty44 tty49 tty52 tty56 tty60
tty11 tty14 tty18 tty22 tty25 tty30 tty33 tty41 tty46 tty50 tty53 tty58 tty61
tty12 tty15 tty20 tty23 tty26 tty31 tty35 tty43 tty48 tty51 tty54 tty59 tty62
Where my Potato box has the sequence continuous through tty63. Is the bug
a _moth_ eating holes in my devices?
>From the file dates it looks like /dev/tty's 1-6 get recreated on boot -
whereas tty0 and everything above tty6 have dates inherited from the distro
(both for Knoppix and Potato).
On short experiment, ./MAKEDEV /dev/tty2 & 6 appears to fix the respawning
problem. But of course the next time I reboot (and the machine's been
rebooted a few times since this problem showed up) how do I avoid it losing
those devices again? And what are those other gaps in the tty lineup doing
there? I suppose it could be file corruption on the disk, but that wouldn't
explain the missing tty2 & 6, since those look to be freshly created on
every boot, so the problem shouldn't be consistent on rebooting as it has
been if it's a problem with the disk or files.
Is there some little buggy loop that's responsible for the device creation?
I can't find anything in /etc/init.d that looks like a candidate. Is there
a bug in the kernel as compiled?
Whit
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