From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 13:26:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03035 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03028 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:26:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00413 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:26:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:26:03 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor Reply-To: Brett Taylor To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ttyv problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have a question - I am getting the following error constantly in the console log: Feb 23 14:13:19 peloton init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv4, sleeping 30 secs I looked at init's man page and found the following: DIAGNOSTICS getty repeating too quickly on port %s, sleeping A process being started to service a line is exiting quickly each time it is started. This is often caused by a ringing or noisy terminal line. Init will sleep for 10 seconds, then continue trying to start the process. In /etc/ttys I have the following stuff for ttyv's: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Finally, I have the following from dmesg: sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> (I show this because previously someone suggested I may not have enough virtual consoles) Does anyone know how to correct this? Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu