Thnaks Ray! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You might also see if the "respawn" message is preceded in the logs > by any more specific message about the process ... such messages > usually are.
In /var/log/messages I get the following Oct 25 14:39:29 philonline modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-43 Oct 25 14:44:30 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:49:31 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:54:32 philonline last message repeated 10 times Oct 25 14:59:33 philonline last message repeated 10 times when I5:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI5 is enabled in inittab. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Does vboxd run directly as a daemon or through inetd? If the first, > is it actually running? If the second, is inetd.conf configured > proprely? Does either vboxd or inetd log anything in connection with > these failed attempts? The instructions say that vboxd can only be used with inetd for which reason I put the following in /etc/inetd.conf: vboxd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/vboxd as per instructions. I have vbox version 2.0.0BETA5 (17-NOV-98) and run RH7.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This URL -- http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue2/m2vbox1.html -- > (found in 2 minutes using Google) has some troubleshooting advice for > vboxgetty and vboxd I checked this out and tail vboxgetty-ttyI5.log gives 26-Oct 16:04:46 <D> Opening modem port "/dev/ttyI5"... 26-Oct 16:04:46 <F> Can't open modem port "/dev/ttyI5" after /usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI5. So that what it is. The modem port can't be opened. Then where do we go from here? Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
