From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 11:16:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B9337B407 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust73.tnt13.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.36.56.73]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12320; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA02185; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:15:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106071815.OAA02185@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: getty and login_tty error message In-Reply-To: <002901c0ef7a$e1326a00$1a01a8c0@alex1.va.home.com> from Michelle Kasch at "Jun 7, 2001 01:54:20 pm" To: mkasch@home.com (Michelle Kasch) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:15:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you changed the /etc/ttys file? Ian In the last episode, Michelle Kasch stated... [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I'm running FreeBSD 4.3. I have been getting these error messages since > installation: > > Jun 3 01:01:38 server026 getty[5869]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:01:38 server026 init: getty repeating too quickly on port > /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5871]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5873]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5875]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5877]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5879]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not > supported by device > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 init: getty repeating too quickly on port > /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs > > > I have not been able to figure out how to fix this issue and it's driving me > crazy! Does anyone know why this error might be occuring? I have not > changed the gettytab file or the fbtab file (they are the original files). > > Thanks, > MK > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message