[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

Terrell Prude', Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Tue May 11 01:46:48 UTC 2004


Here's how.

for i in 7 8 9; do mknod /dev/tty$i c 4 $i; done

--TP

Bert Rolston wrote:

>Hi Terrell,
>
>OK, I tried the inittab changes, and learned the frustration of VIM
>while making these changes.
>
>I still get the same error message, but instead of respawning ID 4-6
>errors this has been reduced to 4 & 5 only.
>
>Methinks I need to recreate the nodes.
>
>Cheers,
>Bert
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:49, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>
>>    
>>






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