On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:36:29AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I did a make world today.
>
> Upon rebooting, I got error messages about getty not being able to find
> /dev/ttyv4
> through /dev/ttyv7. Also startx would not work, reporting that /dev/ttyv4 was
> missing.
>
> I traced it down to /etc/ttys, which was updated. Upon replacing this with the
> old /etc/ttys, all these bad problems disappeared.
>
> > diff /etc-new/ttys /etc/ttys
> 2c2
> < # $Id: ttys,v 1.2.2.2 1999/07/04 17:18:50 des Exp $
> ---
> > # $Id: ttys,v 1.2.2.1 1999/02/12 04:03:39 wes Exp $
> 37,42c37
> < ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> < ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> < ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> < ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> < ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> < ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
> ---
> > ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
> >
>
You can use the new /etc/ttys after
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV vty12
or
# sh MAKEDEV all
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