From: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de (Andreas Busse) Subject: Re: Help with pl10, getty_ps, and poeigl getty. Date: 30 Jun 1993 12:59:27 GMT
In article <20qnq0INNpfo@uwm.edu>, albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
|>
|> I am having a problem getting linux pl10 working on my machine. .
|> When I try to boot the pl10 image, it gets through rc, rc.local, and rc.net
|> but after that it hangs. So I tried to spawn tcsh on tty5, this worked.
|> After hitting alt-f5 I am in pl10, but when I do a 'ps x' I notice that
|> something is running getty and init over and over. Within about a minute
|> my process list is up to process 1000.
[ output of ps deleted ]
|> As you can see, something is running init and getty over and over.
|>
|> I am using:
|> linux 0.99pl10
|> gcc 2.4.0
|> libc.so.4.4 (Only the lib. I am not using the includes and the
|> such for 4.4)
|> getty_ps 2.0.7b
|> poeigl 1.17 (Using everything but getty)
|>
|> I thought it may have something to do with the mixture of getty_ps
|> and poeigl, but I removed getty_ps and used poeigl getty. Same thing.
|> I have a friend here in town that has the same setup, but his works.
|> Does anyone have a clue as to what's wrong with my pl10.
|>
That's all looking like a misconfigured inittab.
For the getty_ps2.0.7b use an inittab line like this:
t1:12345:respawn:/etc/getty tty1 console
Where console must match a line in /etc/gettydefs.
And, please, read the documentation of getty !
Andy