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hanj
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 Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: agetty not a character device (SOLVED) |
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Hello All
I just adopted another Gentoo server.. and I'm getting a weird problem with this. Today there was a power failure, and after booting up, I'm seeing that it's complaining about fonts on start up, and now its spamming the logs with agetty messages.
Here is what happens if I issue an `rc`
| Code: | * Setting user font ...
Couldnt open //dev/tty1
Couldnt open //dev/tty2
Couldnt open //dev/tty3
Couldnt open //dev/tty4
Couldnt open //dev/tty5
Couldnt open //dev/tty6
Couldnt open //dev/tty7
Couldnt open //dev/tty8
Couldnt open //dev/tty9
Couldnt open //dev/tty10
Couldnt open //dev/tty11
* Failed to set user font [ !! ] |
Here are the agetty messages..
| Code: | Aug 29 09:16:59 comp agetty[27478]: /dev/tty3: not a character device
Aug 29 09:16:59 comp agetty[27479]: /dev/tty4: not a character device
Aug 29 09:16:59 comp agetty[27480]: /dev/tty5: not a character device
Aug 29 09:16:59 comp agetty[27481]: /dev/tty6: not a character device
Aug 29 09:17:08 comp init: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Aug 29 09:17:09 comp init: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Aug 29 09:17:09 comp init: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Aug 29 09:17:09 comp init: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Aug 29 09:17:09 comp init: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Aug 29 09:18:26 comp rc-scripts: Failed to set user font |
I was surprised to see that X was installed on the box.. and don't want to remove it because it might be using some parts of it. I'm still trying to figure out all the pieces of this box. Again, this was working fine (not writing agetty messages, etc) before the reboot this morning. Now, I did upgrade baselayout yesterday.
Thanks in advance.
hanji
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hanj
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Trying to mess with consolefont init script (removing pipe to /dev/null).. and here are some clues...
| Code: | comp dev # /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Setting user font ...
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty2: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty3: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty4: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty5: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty6: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty7: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty8: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty9: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty10: No such file or directory
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
/etc/init.d/consolefont: line 55: --tty=//dev/tty11: No such file or directory
* Failed to set user font [ !! ] |
| Code: | comp dev # ls -al //dev/tty1
crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Aug 29 08:27 //dev/tty1 |
I'm not sure why it's not finding /dev/tty1? It exists?
Here is what happens if I try to set the font manually...
| Code: | /bin/setfont default8x16 -C /dev/tty1
Couldnt open /dev/tty1 |
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hanj
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Okay.. this is sorta solved. I just edit'd the /etc/inittab with the following.. and executed telinit.
| Code: | c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
#c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux |
Now logs are quiet.
Thanks!
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SweepingOar
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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I was having a similar problem in my log files (and a respawn waiting five minutes message too). I made the change you did, but I'm still getting this:
| Code: | Nov 29 14:26:06 www agetty[3146]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:26:16 www agetty[3161]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:26:26 www agetty[3181]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:26:36 www agetty[3219]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:26:46 www agetty[3244]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:26:56 www agetty[3286]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:27:06 www agetty[3367]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:27:16 www agetty[3391]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:27:26 www agetty[3413]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Nov 29 14:27:36 www agetty[3429]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory |
and this:
| Code: | Nov 29 14:15:08 www init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Nov 29 14:16:13 www Memory: 903900k/917504k available (1962k kernel code, 13220k reserved, 407k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Nov 29 14:16:13 www init IO_APIC IRQs
Nov 29 14:16:13 www Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
Nov 29 14:16:13 www All processors have done init_idle
Nov 29 14:16:13 www Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Nov 29 14:19:23 www saslauthd[1979]: ipc_init : listening on socket: /var/lib/sasl2/mux
Nov 29 14:21:05 www init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Nov 29 14:21:05 www init: no more processes left in this runlevel
Nov 29 14:27:46 www init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes |
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-SweepingOar |
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