From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 9 5:38:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from catastrophe.net (ss189-189.dvsn-chi-il.outlook.net [208.45.189.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0853E37B424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 05:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@catastrophe.net) Received: (qmail 27302 invoked by uid 40001); 9 May 2001 12:38:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 07:38:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Casey Jones To: , , Subject: Re: Getty Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - Well, I found the problem I was experiencing. /etc/rc was sort of "blown away" during my mergemaster, and it caused no filesystem mounts to happen. So now that it is fixed, life is good. Thanks for reading this! On Wed, 9 May 2001, Casey Jones wrote: > > Hello - > > It looks like this is nothing new as I've found some questions as such > in the mailing list archives, but without solution :( > > I just did a cvsup and make world to 4.3-RELEASE > > My kernel was compiled with the same kernel config as before (one that > worked without a problem). > > However, when I boot my machine, I get the following error > > can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0 > > The boot cycle just hangs and it echo back that error every 30 seconds or > so. > > I've definitely done a > > cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all > > and all the devices are there properly. > > I can boot into single user mode and run "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" and get a > console. > > This goes on even if I toy with the different parameters in /etc/ttys > > I can't seem to find a fix, and it's a bit critical. If you can please > help I would appreciate it very much!! > > Thank you. > > Bill > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message