Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68-bk1 crash in devfs_remove() for defpts files

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 21:35, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Oh, I see now.  There's a longstanding bug in the handling of
> > TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS that got exposed by this.
> >
> > Please try this patch additionally:
> 
> Applied.  Now I can log in by ssh and there are no problems with
> pseudoterminals.  However, all local terminals are gone:
> 
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "S0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> 
you must mount devpts in /dev/pts
and change inittab :
[snip]
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run
X.
#
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/6
[snip]

to use devfs only, it is funny but fe to open /dev/sound/* you need to
be root, or chmod it manually before use. (i've got seperate
/etc/init.d/chdevfsmod file to do that)

> The only entry under /dev/vc is /dev/vc/0.  /dev/tts is missing.
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
K4 labs