Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:14:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Chabot Observatory & Science Center <chabot@astron.berkeley.edu> To: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem logging in after a make world Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950916221342.11812C-100000@astron>
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On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, John Capo wrote: > Chabot Observatory & Science Center writes: > > > > Hi there, > > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, John Capo wrote: > > > > > Chabot Observatory & Science Center writes: > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > I am experiencing a problem after doing a sup last night > > > > (9/16/95) at 02:08 PDT -800 and doing a make world. For some reason, I > > > > can't login or ftp to the machine remotely since I don't have access > > > > there over the weekends, any idea what's happening? Here is the output I > > > > get: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > I had a problem recently where /dev/tty was missing. As I recall, > > > login would loop when asking for the password since it failed to > > > connect to the terminal via /dev/tty. I don't remember exactly. > > > > > > This doesn't appear to be your problem but thought I would mention > > > it. > > > > How did you fix that problem though since I know I had the > > /dev/tty's there before the make world. > > > > I booted single user and fixed the problem. Took a while to find > it. You have to be at the console and you don't have that option > right now. :-( Hmmm, were you able to finger user@hostname though for users on your machine because mines just sit there when I did finger vince@apollo.COSC.GOV while it would respond if I did finger @apollo.COSC.GOV. > I don't have a clue as to why my /dev/tty was missing. This happened > during an upgrade to -stable from 2.0. I was always running -current and just did he latest update last night so I wonder if a reboot would fix this problem since I can get all the login: prompts for all the tty's so it might be something else... Cheers, Vince - vince@apollo.COSC.GOV - chabot@astron.Berkeley.EDU Chabot Observatory & Science Center UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free!
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