From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 00:01:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC0216A4DA for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 00:01:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAF443D46 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 00:01:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8701gVb036882; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k8701fhX036881; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:01:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20060907000141.GA36761@thought.org> References: <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org> <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How to fix init -> /etc/ttys? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:01:47 -0000 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:48:04PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding > > a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in > > single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects > > to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex; > > can't poke around.... > > > > I very rarely touch /etc/ttys; so why is 6.1 having this > > tantrum?? I'm lost .... > > Because getty needs access to the /dev/tty* devices in order to function? > > /dev is a truly bizarre choice of mountpoint. Why not use /mnt, which is > there solely to provide a convenient place to mount stuff? Or -- and this > is a radical idea, I know -- why not mount the /usr filesystem on /usr? > WEll, it turns out that my old /etc/fstab was overwritten by my backup, and I had added a /var slice this time. (The drive is only a couple years old (200G), the box is 61 months old (was homebrew) and I cheaped out with a 40G). Yes, I did wind up fsck'ing everything and mounting /usr on /usr:: then major progress, thank you. Remaining mystery is those "acpi: write failure on 0x70" or whatever. I googled around, and now that I have *grep-powers* I've grep'd in /boot and have some clues. If you have spot-on advise, Matthew, please do share. Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier installation process. True. So I gave him my old Ubuntu boot disk. He's happy with it. ---I realize how much smaller the FBSD hacker base is.... Still, having a GUI-ish intro makes sense in gaining new converts. I'm still here because this Berkeley distro really *is* solid. One fatal trap in 11 years I can handle. < SOAPBOX> gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix