tags 392209 + unreproducible thanks. On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:03:01PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I am trying to use fgetty here on my system, but without success. > > The error messages that appear are: > > could not chown/chmod tty device > (the above message is repeated a lot of times) > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > And then I get an unusable console. > > With mingetty and getty it's working normally. > > The config on inittab is: > > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty2 > > If changing to "2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2" or > "2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2" it works.
Hi Nelson, unfortunately I cannot teproduce the problem. On a current sid system, your inittab entry works just fine for me. Did you change anything special on your system, such as security patches to the kernel, extended access permissions/restrictions or similar? Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

