[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Had another idea after that original post.  Check out your /etc/inittab 
file, and look for the line with tty6 in it.  It should look like this:

  6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

Comment that line out.  Then, do one of two things:

A.)  reboot, or
B.)  change to runlevel 1, then back to runlevel 5

and let us know how things go.  A device node should indeed be made for 
/dev/tty7-9, but we can do the above as a troubleshooting step.

--TP

Bert Rolston wrote:

>Hi Terrell,
>
>I'm posting inline. It's a bit messy but there are several points
>raised.
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>Notice that I have a "tty7" entry, and also notice the permissions on 
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>>it.  My Mandrake 9.2 box also goes up to tty9, BTW.  Since your listing 
>>stopped at tty6, we have one of two options that I can think of to try out.
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>I tried the following.
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>Move ttyx(9,8,7) to tty(4,5,6) to coincide with the missing ones. No
>luck.
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>Not sure if this was advisable but it didn't seem to break anything
>else.
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>>1.)  Make a new device node for tty7.  That's kinda ugly, and I'll have 
>>to go remind myself how to do it (it's been a while).
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>I've done this in the past, but only once. I can't remember how, or
>where I found the info last time.
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>>2.)  Try changing permissions on one of the other tty's to match what my 
>>tty7 has on it.  Given that the UID and GID are both root, it shouldn't 
>>make a difference, but it's worth a shot.  I'd try it with tty's 4 and 6 
>>first, since that's what your XFree86.0.log file shows that X11 is 
>>trying before it dies.
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>Tried this, they get changed back to the settings shown by ls.
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>>If 2.) doesn't do the trick, then let us know, and I'll go dust off how 
>>to make device nodes.  :-)
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>You've given me a clue here. "device nodes". I couldn't even remember that.
>
>Cheers,
>Bert
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