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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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