From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: VBox Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:19:11 +0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200210260819.g9Q8JCn03585@philonline.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021025073755.0218a360@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:55:13 MST." <5.1.0.14.1.20021025073755.0218a360@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thnaks Ray! ray@comarre.com said: > You might also see if the "respawn" message is preceded in the logs > by any more specific message about the process ... such messages > usually are. In /var/log/messages I get the following Oct 25 14:39:29 philonline modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-43 Oct 25 14:44:30 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:49:31 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:54:32 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:59:33 philonline last message repeated 10 times when I5:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI5 is enabled in inittab. ray@comarre.com said: > Does vboxd run directly as a daemon or through inetd? If the first, > is it actually running? If the second, is inetd.conf configured > proprely? Does either vboxd or inetd log anything in connection with > these failed attempts? The instructions say that vboxd can only be used with inetd for which reason I put the following in /etc/inetd.conf: vboxd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/vboxd as per instructions. I have vbox version 2.0.0BETA5 (17-NOV-98) and run RH7.2 ray@comarre.com said: > This URL -- http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue2/m2vbox1.html -- > (found in 2 minutes using Google) has some troubleshooting advice for > vboxgetty and vboxd I checked this out and tail vboxgetty-ttyI5.log gives 26-Oct 16:04:46 Opening modem port "/dev/ttyI5"... 26-Oct 16:04:46 Can't open modem port "/dev/ttyI5" after /usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI5. So that what it is. The modem port can't be opened. Then where do we go from here? Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs