On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:50:53PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Gerrit!
>
> On 11/10/06, Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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?
>
> The Kernel... the only thing that I change here is the Kernel. And
> booting with Debian's Kernel fgetty works without problem. The guilty
> is my 2.6.18-mm1 Kernel! :-)
Hi Nelson, thanks for checking this.
> The strange thing is that mingetty works here (and fgetty is derivated
> from mingetty). But anyway, you can close this bug.
mingetty has a workaround for readonly /dev filesystems, maybe that's
the problem you have. Could you try the attached patch?, I would apply
a similar workaround if it works for you:
$ apt-get source fgetty
...
$ cd fgetty-0.6/
$ patch -p0 </the/attached/patch
patching file fgetty.c
$ debchange -pv0.6-3.1 'try out patch'
$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -uc -us
...
# dpkg -i ../fgetty_0.6-3.1_*.deb
...
#
Regards, Gerrit.
? a.out
? test.c
Index: fgetty.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/fgetty/fgetty.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 fgetty.c
--- fgetty.c 16 Feb 2004 10:07:55 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ fgetty.c 13 Nov 2006 14:11:40 -0000
@@ -76,8 +76,12 @@
void open_tty() {
struct sigaction sa;
int fd;
- if (chown(tty,0,0) || chmod(tty,0600))
- error("could not chown/chmod tty device\n",1);
+ if (chown(tty,0,0) || chmod(tty,0600)) {
+ if (errno==EROFS)
+ write(2,"fgetty: warning: could not change owner/permissions of tty:
readonly filesystem\n",80);
+ else
+ error("could not chown/chmod tty device\n",1);
+ }
sa.sa_handler=SIG_IGN;
sa.sa_flags=0;
sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
