Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: mike <g434g434@yahoo.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: mike@freebsdbox.com Subject: init can't exec /usr/libexec/getty -and more Message-ID: <20001024185955.23281.qmail@web5202.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ok, Now I am frustrated, so any help would be greatly appreciated .... after my upgrade from 4.0-r to 4.1.1-s everything went great .. I followed the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. After booting my machine and I get to ... waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle .. I get multiple errors which say (date) init: can't exec '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0 to /dev/ttyv7. No such file or directory. (If I recall correctly there are 8 ttyv*'s default, I could be wrong.) I noticed gettytab was hosed in /etc/ so I copied it over from /usr/src/etc/gettytab to /etc/gettytab .. I read the init(8), ttys(5), tty(4), login(1) man pages and have a very firm understanding of them. I know for a fact /usr/libexec/getty exists, in fact if I boot single-user mode I can mount my filesystems and then manual run '/usr/libexec/getty Pc' and invoke a login prompt. /etc/ttys is intact, /etc/gettytab is fine /usr/libexec/getty works perfect since my manually attempting to run it. so that leads me with the conclusion that /dev/ttyv1 to /dev/ttyv7 do not exist. However I notice in /dev there are all the ttyv*'s.. so I attempt to execute getty on ttyv1 like so: '/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1' whoah! I get a login prompt that says FreeBSD/i386 (amnesiac) Login: Ok, so now for the heck of it I login with my normal user and attempt 'startx'. I get the error message as both root/user Authentication Failed - Cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? enough of the problem, Now I am hoping someone can provide me with a solution. If you need more information jsut let me know, but this box has been down now almost 2 full workdays and I am in dyer need to get it back up an running ASAP. thanks in advance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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