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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: console broken after Feb 21
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:

> Sometime between Feb 6 and Feb 21, there was a change that has broken the
> console on my athlon. init is acting like it can't open the console -- the
> forked process sleeps and respawns, but there are no messages. Single user
> and serial console have no effect and offer no additional output.

More on this.

Tweaking init to log to /dev/cuaa0, and converting vsyslog() calls into
vfprintf(), finds that things are failing due to this:

can't open /dev/console: No such file or directory

I see that the 'devfs' global variable isn't initialized, so I'm going to
initialize that.  I'll also see if my on-disk /dev is broken or something,
although I'm not sure how easy it is to fix.

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