Re: login problems

[Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Paulussen Edmond wrote:
> Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
> Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working.
> 
> Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username & password) I get following error message:
> 
> "login [128] unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user root
>  Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: illegal seek"
> 
> I get the error message at every login (root, normal user)
> 
> What is the problem?

I don't know.

> What have I done wrong?

Maybe nothing.

> What is the solution?

I can only say what I would try: Use a rescue floppy to boot from. Mount
your root partition and cd to the /dev directory. Look at the owner and
permissions of the tty1 psuedo terminal. Change the owner, group and
permissions of /dev/tty1 to reasonable settings.

An example after booting from rescue floppy.

Mount the root under /mnt
# mount -t ext2 /dev/your-root-patition
# cd /mnt/dev
# ls -l tty1
crw-------   1 jf       tty        4,   1 Dec 30 14:00 /dev/tty1
# chown root.tty tty1
# chmod 666 tty1
# reboot


> 
> Paulussen Edmond
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Jim