/dev/config is missing

[Asya]

Hello,

When logging in I get the following error:

login: username
Password:
io_init failed: /dev/config does not exist.
Please wait...checking for disk quotas
No shell
Connection closed by foreign host.

Nothing in logs can be seen. /dev/config IS missing...

The only way i can get in is using root. I've never seen error and can't really find anything that would explain WHY it's missing.

Does this mean that i need to reinstall the server?

Thank you!
Asya

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Asya,

Perhaps looking into these threads may help you,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=36831
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1002186

-Arun

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Asya,

login with your root account.

# mknod /dev/config c 69 0x000000

# chmod 644 /dev/config

and try to login again with an other user.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Patrick Wallek]

No you should not have to reinstall because of this issue.

When logged in as root, do the following to recreate the file:

# mknod /dev/config c 69 0x000000

Be sure and check permissions on it then. It should be -rw-r--r-- (or 644).

[Asya]

Thank you all for your helped. It worked.