[Buildroot] Login exited

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:26:44PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
> I think the origin of the "can't open /dev/ttySxxx" problem is differ
> with the origin of the "getty exited" problem.  And, for the former, I
> think it has nothing to do with my device_table.txt,  since if I
> comment out the following line in etc/inittab:
>    ::sysinit:/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 none /dev
> and replace it with
>    ::sysinit:/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 none /dev
> then, the "can't open /dev/ttySxxx" problem gone away.  so I think,

What is the difference between these two lines? I don't see one.

> But, as you know, this problem had been resoved, I finally get the
> login problem and the system is waiting for me to login.  My new
> problem is that I can not login.  When I type in user name 'root' at
> the prompt, I got the on-console log message:
>     Dec 31 17:24:45 ffcplus daemon.info init: init: process
> '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages' (pid 7568) exited. Scheduling for
> restart.

Maybe you could boot your system with the command line "init=/bin/sh" so
that it skips all start up scripts and see what happens?

> > And, I got see a suspicious messages just after the kernel booted:
> > ---
> > VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing init memory: 84K
> > Error -3 while decompressing!
> > c0925384(-7384812)->c3e38000(4096)
> > ---

Yes I wonder if your root image has not loaded properly by the boot
loader and hence your root file system is incomplete.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>