Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:06:45 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Terry Rudy <terry_rudy@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getty errors on reboot Message-ID: <383D96D5.44D0E451@3-cities.com> References: <19991125194818.35639.qmail@hotmail.com>
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One of the steps in the upgrade to 3.3 is to make the new devices in /dev. From the upgrade guide at simple.net you do the following: > 5. After you reboot In all likelihood your reboot was successful, and you now have a correctly functioning 3.2-Stable system. At this point there are just a few remaining tasks to perform and you will be ready to use your system once again instead of fiddling with it. Rebuild your devices Go into /dev and type '/bin/sh MAKEDEV all'. This will rebuild all of your devices, including any new ones needed for the new system. < I had the same problem and they went away. Kent Terry Rudy wrote: > > Hi folks, I had my system running for a couple days and just rebooted it > after recompiling the kernel to recognize my tape drive. Upon restart > everything seems to get init'd correctly (even new tape drive) but as its > just about to get me at a prompt, I see: > > cp: /var/run/_motd no such file or directory > init: can't exec 'getty' /usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0: > No such file or directory > . > . > . > thru ttyv7 > > Every 30 seconds, these will repeat again, into infinity it seems. If i go > back to kernel.old or kernel.GENERIC then I keep getting the same errors. I > could find no helpful information to this problem in the handbook or in > mailing list archives. > > I just rebooted my system last night and got in with no problems. I find > this particularly troubling because it fails with kernel.old and > kernel.GENERIC. > > I appreciate the helpful responses I got to my tape drive queries - thanks > again for the help. > thanks!! > -terry > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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