From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7571 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 02:16:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Sep 2001 02:16:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 10961 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2001 02:16:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4287 Received: (qmail 10945 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 02:16:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:16:36 -0400 From: lordzork@lordzork.com To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: error on TTY read: no such file or directory Message-ID: <20010928221636.D16561@hithaeglir.net> Reply-To: lordzork@lordzork.com Mail-Followup-To: lordzork@lordzork.com, zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <20010910200737.A6256@hithaeglir.net> <001f01c13abb$6997dca0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <20010911084904.A11501@hithaeglir.net> <1010911140155.ZM24429@candle.brasslantern.com> <20010928121347.B16561@hithaeglir.net> <1010928174804.ZM18560@candle.brasslantern.com> <20010928163532.C16561@hithaeglir.net> <1010929013329.ZM18876@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1010929013329.ZM18876@candle.brasslantern.com> Organization: lordzork industries X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/EE946A6E X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E27C 03D8 A1B6 F7C5 2B92 58A9 4BEA 926A EE94 6A6E X-GPG-Public-Key: http://lordzork.com/tmk.pub.asc X-Mailer: CHIKKEN MAIL 0.80 BETA (CHIKKEN) X-Originating-IP: [127.0.0.1] X-Midgets: too tall In the gothic chambers of the underworld on Fri 28 Sep 2001 at 21:33 -0400, Bart Schaefer muttered darkly: > Aha. This suggests that you may have the wrong kind of getty running > on those ttys. For example, you may have mgetty or another flavor of > modem-oriented getty which is expecting a locking protocol to be used. > Check /etc/inittab or wherever it is that your gettys are configured. > i use rungetty (http://www.ndn.net/rungetty.html?/). i use it on two of my other linux boxes with no problem. just for kicks, i tried running agetty instead. same problem. btw, i don't remember if i mentioned this before, but if i boot into single user mode and login, everything is fine. of course, that uses /dev/console instead of /dev/tty[1-7]. t. -- 4.0k -rw-rw-r-- 1 zork zork 17 Apr 4 17:38 .signature