On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:56:47AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > --- On Sun, 8/10/08, Jim Morgan wrote: > > > From: Jim Morgan > > Subject: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm > > To: "Xastir" <[email protected]> > > Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:52 PM > > Ok I loaded Gtkterm fired it up and I get this error message > > "Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy." > > So the question now is how do I find out what is making the > > port busy and how do I turn it off? > > > I bet there's a serial getty sitting on the port right now for a serial > console. Look inside a file called /etc/inittab for the serial port. You > can do it this way: > > grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab > > If it comes back with a line that doesn't have a # in front, that's probably > part of the problem.
Ubuntu doesn't use /etc/inittab, and the file doesn't exist on that system. Instead, ubuntu has files in /etc/event.d that start up getty on various ports. If there's a file /etc/event.d/ttyS0 then Alex's hypothesis might be correct. On my system there are only files for each of the virtual consoles, tty1-tty6. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
