Subject: Re: missing mingetty tty1
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 12:38:19 MDT
Hi. I assume you tried hitting enter a few times? I have noticed on a few
occasions, such as switching run levels, that the login prompt won't be
immediately visible.
Jim
Jason P. Stanford's bits of Thu, 30 Sep 1999 translated to:
> I just noticed something quite strange... I had been logged into tty1,
> logged out and never got a login prompt again. Those for the other tty's
> work fine, but tty1 just seems to "hang". I did a 'ps fax', and there
> is a process '/sbin/mingetty tty1'. I even killed it and another one
> immediately replaced it, still with no prompt on the actual tty. What's
> going on here? Can I get it back without having to restart? This
> happened once before, I think. Any ideas?
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