[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Addendum to this; call it #1.5) in my "things to try" below.  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.

--TP

Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:

> I just took a look at two of mine.  One's running K12LTSP 2.1.2, and 
> the other's running K12LTSP 3.1.2.  Here's what I get, in both cases 
> (only the dates differ):
>
> -bash-2.05b$ ls -l tty?
> crw--w----    1 root     root       4,   0 Jan 30  2003 tty0
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   1 May  3 09:47 tty1
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   2 May  3 09:47 tty2
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   3 May  3 09:47 tty3
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   4 May  3 09:47 tty4
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   5 May  3 09:47 tty5
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   6 May  3 09:47 tty6
> crw--w----    1 root     root       4,   7 Apr 30 16:16 tty7
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,   8 Jan 30  2003 tty8
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,   9 Jan 30  2003 tty9
> -bash-2.05b$
>
> Notice that I have a "tty7" entry, and also notice the permissions on 
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> If 2.) doesn't do the trick, then let us know, and I'll go dust off 
> how to make device nodes.  :-)
>
> --TP
>
>
> Bert Rolston wrote:
>
>> Hi Terrell,
>>
>> Only works on the F2 & F3 keys.
>>
>> However, if I press the ENTER key on screens F1, F4 - F7 THEN I get a
>> login prompt.
>>
>> I can login as root but startx doesn't work. I get the same error
>> message.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:28, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Now this is interesting, because, by default, XFree86 uses VT #7 
>>> instead of 4.  Let's see if you actually have a VTY 4 running on 
>>> your box.  At your command prompt, hit Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, 
>>> etc. all the way through Ctrl-Alt-F7.  You should see the "ttyx" 
>>> part change numbers (e. g. tty1, tty2).  Assuming that you do see 
>>> them, try actually logging in at each one of them.  Let us know how 
>>> this goes.
>>>
>>> --TP
>>>
>>>   
>>
>
>
>
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