From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won) Subject: init looks for tty0 in tty1... Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 12:25:10 GMT
Hi,
I am using linux 0.96a and have a weird problem(of course, I was the cause of ti ultimately..:(
I was installing mgr and had a prob about init not being able to open tty0(condosole). So I figured that I could just link tty0 to console so that it would just
redirect it to console. Well, it seemed to take care of the mgr problem coz now
mgr seems to work(even though it was not as functional as I expected).
But now when I login, init forks two getty processes to tty0 and tty1(besides the normal tty2 , tty3, tty4). and when I login as root, it logs me in as the root but instead of giving me access to shell, the login prompt pops up again and
passwd. I type root and the passwd again but now, it will not accept any characters.
I can still login through other consoles and they seem to work fine...
I played around with some files in /etc (esp config) but I got them back
to their original state and still, I get the same prop.
I tried deleting tty0 and this seemed to solve the prob except that init
still forks getty to tty0 and it will pop up a message saying that it can't
find any file name of tty0...it's quite annoying...
QUESTION:
is init supposed to fork five gettys? or just four...
ANOTHER QUESTION:
is there anything I can do to fix the init? or something I can do to filesin /etc? ( there must be coz it was okay before I stuffed it up..:(
Thanks heaps in advance.