Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:12:15 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Again] init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not permitted Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20020927071215.007d8e80@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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I'm getting more confused by the day. As posted earlier, my server rebooted spontaneously while trying to run portupgrade and hung after beginning to run the local initialization scripts. The console is locked up and I can't switch to any of the virtual terminals. Luckily, I *can* log in from another machine using SSH and look around. In /var/log/messages I have a lot of entries: "init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not permitted". OK, so I figured it might have something to do with terminal initialization and read the man page on getty. I looked at /etc/gettytab and /etc/ttys and didn't see anything that looked odd, so I decided to try running getty and see if it gave me any kind of informative error message. When I ran /usr/libexec/getty I got a garbled line and the session froze up. Deciding that getty was somehow farkled (stray alpha particle?), I tried to remake it by going to /usr/src/libexec/getty and ran 'make install clean'. I got the message "install: getty: No such file or directory *** Error code 71" I'm over my head. Can anyone direct me to a set of instructions? -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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