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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Didier Rwitura <drwitura@primus.ca>
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Subject: Re: Can't reboot into single mode
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:19:22PM -0400, Didier Rwitura wrote:
>
>After I upgraded my FreeBSD-5.3 to FreeBSD -5.4 stable, I can't to go to 
>single user mode anymore . I am getting the following error message
>
>init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0
...

getty's are only exec'd in multi-user mode so something odd is happening.
More information is needed:
How did you upgrade?  Source upgrade or binary upgrade?
If it was a source upgrade, exactly what did you do?
How are you booting to single user mode?  Breaking to the loader prompt
and entering "boot -s" or entering "4" (from memory) into the boot menu?
When you boot single user, what are console messages between "Mounting
root..."  and the "can't exec getty" message?

-- 
Peter Jeremy