------- Comment From [email protected] 2018-01-25 10:12 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #4)
> During the installation (z/VM guest and KVM virtual machine) of Ubuntu
> Server 16.04.1 (and 16.04.2) repeating messages of the form:
>
> "
> Select and install software ... 10% can't open /dev/tty4: No such device or
> address
> can't open /dev/tty2: No such device or address
> can't open /dev/tty3: No such device or address
> can't open /dev/tty4: No such device or address

...

> /dev/tty1 file exists on s390x ubuntu, however, one cannot open that file
> doing that results in ENXIO.

...

> Imho, if /dev/tty[0-9] devices do not exist, why does kernel create
such

The /dev/tty[0-9] devices represent the x86 VT consoles.  They do not
exist on s390x nor should the tty terminal device driver for them be
active.

So I suspect that these are not created by the kernel and, further, I
guess that they are manually created by those utilities that create the
install image. That means, these are static created device files rather
then dynamically ones handled by udev.

> files? Can it be escalated to IBM linux team to not have those files at all?
> E.g. make a upstream kernel patch to not create these devices. Maybe I am
> crazy, I don't understand things - e.g. is it possible to somehow get a
> working /dev/tty1?

No there isn't.  The only special case is /dev/tty (without a number).
This refers to the current terminal of a process (it is not a VT
console).

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