On Thursday 04 August 2005 17:36, Ruaidhri Power wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:06:19AM -0400, Ernie Fontes wrote: > > devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0 > > devfs: boot_options: 0x1 > > ... > > > INIT: Id "0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: Id "c" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel > > It looks like init is running gettys on non-existent ttys. I downloaded > that Redhat image, and its /etc/inittab looks as follows: > > 0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttys/0 > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttys/1 > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttys/2 > c:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty serial/0 > > You're currently using devfs, which is obviously not creating device > nodes that look like /dev/ttys/0. IIRC (not sure), that was a nonstandard location for devFS consoles, unique to UML, so I deleted that with much care about 6 months ago IIRC (and nobody complained yet). > You've two choices: either stop using > devfs, create static device nodes and change the inittab lines to run > gettys on them, DevFS will go away in 2.6.13, so please stop using it. > or you can update the inittab lines to use the devfs > devices.
> I'm not sure offhand what devfs creates, as I don't use it myself. Maybe > starting your UML image with init=/bin/sh on the command line will let > you look around and see what device nodes are in /dev? Yes, that should work. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
