From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 23:10:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3474F37B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14bH0D-000En6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:07:53 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14bH2D-000JqZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:09:57 +0300 Received: from host-64-110-74-50.interpacket.net ([64.110.74.50] helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14bH27-000JkA-00; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:09:52 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14bH40-0003vU-00; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:11:48 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:11:48 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Cc: cjclark@reflexnet.net Subject: Re: System 'FRIED' Message-ID: <20010309101148.A14990@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q , cjclark@reflexnet.net References: <20010309093631.A14130@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <20010308230029.U1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010308230029.U1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>; from "Crist J. Clark" on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:00:29PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Crist J. Clark [20010309 10:02]: writing on the s= ubject 'Re: System 'FRIED'' Crist> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:36:31AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Crist> > Hi, Crist> > I kinda fried my system by unknowingly pressing some key during Crist> > mergemaster. Okay, this is the machine o which I do all tests but I Crist> > overlooked something - keeping a copy of my etc/ Crist> >=20 Crist> > Now the machine won't completely come up and the message is: Crist> >=20 Crist> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0: N= o such Crist> > file or directory. Crist> > This is repeated for every ttyvX=20 Crist> >=20 Crist> > What did I fry? How can I solve this?=20 Crist> > I am able to boot to single user mode so I believe maybe a file is Crist> > missing?? Crist>=20 Crist> Uh, well, do you have any /dev/ttyv? files? Crist> --=20 Crist> Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu Crist>=20 Hi Crist, I did ls -al ttyv* and got ttyv0 to ttyv9 and then ttyva and ttyvb Thanks for a quick response.=20 May I also add that this system is 4.3-BETA #11 -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth t= o a=20 child. She must be found and stopped. -Sam Stevenson=20 --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qII0A2k+MNyI/bERAv0wAKCEQQchy5/g2LP7vpFzJLt29CZqmQCffw0S 00rjpvY+VeLl2gJPDkaG068= =ijO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message