On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:19:31PM +0200, Timo Reimerdes wrote:
| Problems I have:
| * no working console on local login: "respawning too fast issue"
| Questions:
| * How to get console working again? I can login via ssh but wont get a single
| prompt locally. I tried google for around a month now... none of the hints
| helped me.
I saw this issue on a couple machines (x86) while I was tinkering with
them. It was a little bit frustrating for me because the problem ws
"intermittent". I eventually figured it out. Sometimes on that
little 486 I would disable devfsd (this was before udev was available)
because cups would take forever to start because devfsd would fork an
excessive number of modprobe processes. Then I couldn't get a local
login because /dev/tty1 (etc.) didn't exist. When devfsd was running,
however, /dev/tty1 was a symlink to /dev/vc/1 and getty would open the
console. Could this be the cause of your problem? Make sure the
device specified in /etc/inittab exists.
For example, this line tells getty to use /dev/tty1
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo
Likewise, this line says to use /dev/vc/1
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/1 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo
(you probably won't have the '-f /etc/issue.linuxlogo' in your
inittab)
HTH,
-D
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