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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:11:48 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cjclark@reflexnet.net
Subject:   Re: System 'FRIED'
Message-ID:  <20010309101148.A14990@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <20010308230029.U1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>; from "Crist J. Clark" on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:00:29PM -0800
References:  <20010309093631.A14130@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <20010308230029.U1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>

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* Crist J. Clark <cjclark@reflexnet.net> [20010309 10:02]: writing on the s=
ubject 'Re: System 'FRIED''
Crist> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:36:31AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Crist> > Hi,
Crist> > I kinda fried my system by unknowingly pressing some key during
Crist> > mergemaster. Okay, this is the machine o which I do all tests but I
Crist> > overlooked something - keeping a copy of my etc/
Crist> >=20
Crist> > Now the machine won't completely come up and the message is:
Crist> >=20
Crist> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0: N=
o such
Crist> > file or directory.
Crist> > This is repeated for every ttyvX=20
Crist> >=20
Crist> > What did I fry? How can I solve this?=20
Crist> > I am able to boot to single user mode so I believe maybe a file is
Crist> > missing??
Crist>=20
Crist> Uh, well, do you have any /dev/ttyv? files?
Crist> --=20
Crist> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Crist>=20

Hi Crist,
I did ls -al ttyv* and got ttyv0 to ttyv9 and then ttyva and ttyvb

Thanks for a quick response.=20

May I also add that this system is 4.3-BETA #11


-Wash

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child. She must be found and stopped. -Sam Stevenson=20

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