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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:27:04 +0200
From: Lech Szychowski <lech.szychowski@pse.pl>
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Subject: getty problems
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In short: on 2.4.7-ac[3-7] getty cannot open /dev/ttyX,
while on 2.4.5 it can.

I've done "strace -o /tmp/GETTY-`uname -r` /sbin/getty tty9 vc linux"
in both cases and compared otput files. The big difference is here:

2.4.5:
open("/dev/tty9", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)    = 0

2.4.7-ac7:
open("/dev/tty9", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)    = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

And yes, I believe I have terminal support compiled in:

===
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
===

$ gcc -v      
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)

This problem hit me when I compiled and installed new kernel
(2.4.5 comes with the distribution) - I could not log in because
all gettys got disabled:

Aug  6 14:10:09 nnet /sbin/agetty[103]: /dev/tty6: cannot open as standard input: No such device
Aug  6 14:10:09 nnet init: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

-- 
	Leszek.

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