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From: Chabot Observatory & Science Center <chabot@astron.berkeley.edu>
To: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: problem logging in after a make world
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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!