getty problem

[ricky_1]

Hi all,

on my system, the getty process is gone,and it did not get respawned though the entry is correct in inittab.

cons:123456:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty console console


Any suggestions,will be higly apreciated.

thanx and regards,
ricky

[Michael Tully]

Hi Ricky,

Are there processes currently on the system console?

# ps -ef |grep console

If there are, you should terminate them. (if they
are not doing anything) This should then start
the getty process for the console. If not you may
have to reset you console manually, power off and
on holding down the 'd' key.

HTH
Michael

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Try
init q
to respawn a getty to your console

[Wodisch]

Hello Ricky,

in case your "getty" reports an error, is restarted for
that reason, and this happens too often within a short
amount of time, then you will see a message on the
console telling you that it was "respawning too rapidly"
and hence is NOT restarted again.
Solve the problem by checking the command line options
of your "getty" lin in the "/etc/inittab", the contents of
your "/etc/gettydefs" (with "getty -c") and the validity
of all the serial parameters you are using there.
Post the "getty" line and the paragraph referenced by
it, if you cannot fix it. BTW, "init q" tells "init" to start
the respawning, again.

HTH,
Wodisch