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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2000 20:03:27 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *strange*
Message-ID:  <20000505200327.A11398@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <200005060210.TAA11126@tao.thought.org>; from kline@tao.thought.org on Fri, May 05, 2000 at 07:10:37PM -0700
References:  <200005060210.TAA11126@tao.thought.org>

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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 07:10:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
>    This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in the 5 years of FBSD.
> 
>    Nutshell, I messed up the installation of 4.0 and reinstalled by
>    Upgrade from my 3.2 CD.
> 
>    The machine boots to the date stage and hangs. I can, however,
>    telnet in from this platform into root (!flame, please).  As 
>    root from this xterm, I'm about to re-CVSup everything. 
> 
>    Any idea what could be hanging the console and preventing it 
>    from giving me a login prompt??
> 

	PS to the above:  I hacked  /etc/ttys to let me login
	as root by telnet; I may have hacked the file too much
	and made getty unhappy.   Guess.  I'm not going to
	upset cvsup right now, tho.

	-g


-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service Unix



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