Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:00:39 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't exec /usr/libexec/getty for /dev/ttyv1 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040109195846.72338A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040109152441.F24587@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > I just did a cvsup and rebuilt the world, and when I reboot, > > I get lots of the following error messages: > > > > init: can't exec getty `/usr/libexec/getty` for /dev/ttyv1: No souch file or directory > > init: can't exec getty `/usr/libexec/getty` for /dev/ttyv2: No souch file or directory > > [and so on] > > Forgot to update fstab to mount devfs? In general, devfs should be mounted without the use of fstab -- the kernel tries, and if it fails, init tries. So it could well be that devfs isn't mounted, but probably not due to fstab problems. It would be interesting to boot to single-user mode and see what is mounted. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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