On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:15:07PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Today, I reinstalled the system (gnumach-1.2-1, hurd-19990725). > After native-install was complete, I had the famous rreebboooott > problem where I had to type each character twice. "ps aux" > showed there were two /hurd/term daemons reading the Mach console > device: one for /tmp/console and the other for /dev/console.
Ah, that's the problem... seems we have found a way to provide two virtual consoles... on the same screen! ergh :) > Could we fix the problem by making /dev/console a hard link to > /tmp/console instead of creating it anew? The passive translator > would still have to be reset, but the active one could be left > running. > > (Or perhaps settrans could get a new feature: > settrans --active --copy-from=/tmp/console /dev/console > which would connect /dev/console to the active translator already > serving /tmp/console. Is this possible?) Mmmh. I wonder why the /dev/console translator gets active at all. Maybe we can just shut it down after creating the device file if another term translator is currently active. Then, at next reboot /dev/console is used, but after native-install runs only /tmp/console. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
