Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:01:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to fix init -> /etc/ttys? Message-ID: <20060907000141.GA36761@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org> <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:48:04PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding > > a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in > > single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects > > to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex; > > can't poke around.... > > > > I very rarely touch /etc/ttys; so why is 6.1 having this > > tantrum?? I'm lost .... > > Because getty needs access to the /dev/tty* devices in order to function? > > /dev is a truly bizarre choice of mountpoint. Why not use /mnt, which is > there solely to provide a convenient place to mount stuff? Or -- and this > is a radical idea, I know -- why not mount the /usr filesystem on /usr? > WEll, it turns out that my old /etc/fstab was overwritten by my backup, and I had added a /var slice this time. (The drive is only a couple years old (200G), the box is 61 months old (was homebrew) and I cheaped out with a 40G). Yes, I did wind up fsck'ing everything and mounting /usr on /usr:: then major progress, thank you. Remaining mystery is those "acpi: write failure on 0x70" or whatever. I googled around, and now that I have *grep-powers* I've grep'd in /boot and have some clues. If you have spot-on advise, Matthew, please do share. <SOAPBOX> Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier installation process. True. So I gave him my old Ubuntu boot disk. He's happy with it. ---I realize how much smaller the FBSD hacker base is.... Still, having a GUI-ish intro makes sense in gaining new converts. I'm still here because this Berkeley distro really *is* solid. One fatal trap in 11 years I can handle. < SOAPBOX> gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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