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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 07:38:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Casey Jones <bill@catastrophe.net>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Getty Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.31L2.0105090737290.26245-100000@jedi.catastrophe.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31L2.0105090047550.20137-100000@jedi.catastrophe.net>

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Hello -

Well, I found the problem I was experiencing.

/etc/rc was sort of "blown away" during my mergemaster, and it
caused no filesystem mounts to happen.

So now that it is fixed, life is good.

Thanks for reading this!

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Casey Jones wrote:

>
> Hello -
>
> It looks like this is nothing new as I've found some questions as such
> in the mailing list archives, but without solution :(
>
> I just did a cvsup and make world to 4.3-RELEASE
>
> My kernel was compiled with the same kernel config as before (one that
> worked without a problem).
>
> However, when I boot my machine, I get the following error
>
> can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0
>
> The boot cycle just hangs and it echo back that error every 30 seconds or
> so.
>
> I've definitely done a
>
> cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all
>
> and all the devices are there properly.
>
> I can boot into single user mode and run "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" and get a
> console.
>
> This goes on even if I toy with the different parameters in /etc/ttys
>
> I can't seem to find a fix, and it's a bit critical. If you can please
> help I would appreciate it very much!!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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