Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | (Tres Hofmeister) | Subject | Re: init bug | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:58:37 -0700 (MST) |
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I'm sorry if this is a bit off the subject, and that it's not specifically a kernel problem (I hope), but I think the original problem may have been one I've seen a few times with my Slackware 3.0 / 1.2.13 system.
Something, somewhere, changes /dev/console from its normal state (major 4, minor 0) state to a link to a pty such as ttyp0:
crw--w--w- 2 root tty 4, 192 Mar 14 07:02 /dev/console
I think in my case it has something to do with xterm -C and running shutdown before shutting down X "normally." I could be completely wrong, however. There's a thread in comp.os.linux.x concerning this problem.
Anyway, I thought that init was hanging, but in the end it was simply that as soon as init started, I got no more console messages, nothing. I suspected a problem with init too, but in the end it was the above. What on earth would be doing this?
-- Tres Hofmeister Research Applications Program tres@ncar.ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric Research
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