On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:36:09PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Steve Kemp <steve_at_steve.org.uk> wrote:
> >[...]
> >I've seen that before and in most cases it has been because the
> >serial console was not correct. (ie. cron was the last process to
> >start before the login.)
>
> Do you know how to fix that?
Usually it has been a broken /etc/inittab - some distributions
use atty(?) instead of getty. (Or mingetty even).
That would be the first thing I'd look at.
> I checked that /dev/console and /dev/tty* exists, and all seems to be there.
Cool.
> I'm currently comparing the console-related Kernel option in the
> fc6xen kernel with the xensource xen kernels, but cannot see anything
> obvious.
>
Check the inittab file and make sure the binary it references for
serial use exists and has appropriate arguments.
Steve
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