On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Douglas Alan wrote: > Would mingetty be installed when I first boot the computer, and then > after some amount of time become mysteriously uninstalled, only to them > be mysterious reinstalled when I reboot the computer?
Sheesh. > Strangely, there is no mingetty running on tty1 or on tty2, but I just > get a black screen if I try to switch to *any* of the virtual consoles, > even though there is a mingetty running on some of them. If I try to > run a mingetty on tty1 as root, it just exits leaving the following > entry in /var/log/messages: > > Nov 15 18:27:17 gaffa mingetty[421]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: > Operation not permitted does this output from my box match yours? [root@optimus root]# ls -ld /dev/tty? crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 0 Aug 30 18:31 /dev/tty0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty3 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty4 crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty5 crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 Nov 14 11:01 /dev/tty6 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 7 Aug 30 18:31 /dev/tty7 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 8 Aug 30 18:31 /dev/tty8 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 9 Aug 30 18:31 /dev/tty9 [root@optimus root]# ls -ld /dev drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 118784 Nov 14 11:01 /dev if you don't find an error there, do a: rpm -Va | egrep -v "tty|dev" and let me know what you get. Also, do you log onto X, and if so, as what user? -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | | "The world is a comedy to those that think, / /\ \\_/| \/ ||__)|_| a tragedy to those who feel." - Horace Walpole -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
