From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 23: 0:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F04F37B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:58:38 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2970eC42141; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:00:29 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: System 'FRIED' Message-ID: <20010308230029.U1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010309093631.A14130@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010309093631.A14130@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:36:31AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:36:31AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi, > I kinda fried my system by unknowingly pressing some key during > mergemaster. Okay, this is the machine o which I do all tests but I > overlooked something - keeping a copy of my etc/ > > Now the machine won't completely come up and the message is: > > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0: No such > file or directory. > This is repeated for every ttyvX > > What did I fry? How can I solve this? > I am able to boot to single user mode so I believe maybe a file is > missing?? Uh, well, do you have any /dev/ttyv? files? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message