Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:13:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Didier Rwitura <drwitura@primus.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't reboot into single mode Message-ID: <20050911091346.GB18267@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0509102311260.10553-100000@staffshell.primus.ca> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0509102311260.10553-100000@staffshell.primus.ca>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:19:22PM -0400, Didier Rwitura wrote: >=20 > After I upgraded my FreeBSD-5.3 to FreeBSD -5.4 stable, I can't to go to= =20 > single user mode anymore . I am getting the following error message >=20 > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0 >=20 > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv1 >=20 > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv2 > =20 > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv3 >=20 > and the system hangs=20 Which begs the questions: - does /usr/libexec/getty exist? - is it executable? - is /usr mounted in single user mode? What do 'ls -l /usr/libexec/getty' and 'file /usr/libexec/getty' say? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDI/VKEnfvsMMhpyURAhkeAJ0eMnhVreSFSMvzp9CY1fGHddRy6gCeOs8q MYkv9OF9FW3nWDn1kLEGyfk= =zC+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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