Re: 'console-tools' cannot find console

[ferret@phonewave.net]

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 09:31:05AM -0800, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 08:19:27AM -0800, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > `Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console'
> > > > > 
> > > > > I get this message every time I boot my Sparc. Now 'console-tools' is
> > > > > erroring when dpkg tries to install it. What sould I look for?
> > > > > 
> > > > > crw-r--r--    1 root     root       5,   1 Dec 11 18:36 /dev/console
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have my /dev/console set up for 2.2.x kernels, and it seems to work
> > > > > perfectly fine.
> > > > 
> > > > IMO, it is a bug in console-tools, but I can't pinpoint the problem.
> > > > Should file a bug on that package marked "important" for severity.
> > > 
> > > Would it matter that my console is on ttya?
> > 
> > No, because mine isn't, yet I have the same problem.
> 
> Actually, I think I had the same problem before installing console-tools
> (which the UTF-8 support needs)

I did an xtrace on console-tools' postint, and it looks like the offender
is actually debconf in this case.

::++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend ./console-tools.postinst configure
::Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

Although... I just switched my development lintel to serial console and I
sometimes get the same error under other circumstances. I'm still working
on that one.

-- Ferret no baka