From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 12:53:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1188C37BEFC for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0468.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.193.213]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15644; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00704; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:52:03 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Darren Evans Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal Message-ID: <20000703125203.C433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <001001bfe502$80d82f10$a99d24d4@profero.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <001001bfe502$80d82f10$a99d24d4@profero.com>; from darren@profero.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:22:30PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:22:30PM +0100, Darren Evans wrote: > > > eric init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not > permitted # ls -l /dev/console > I've tried booting kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC and obviously kernel, > all come up with this error. > > The only thing that has changed, is that i've added some features to > the kernel, namely these. > > I suspect it's the snoop device that causing this menagerie. ^^^^^^^^^ What an odd thing to say. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message