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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:54 am    Post subject: Missing Consoles? Reply with quote

I have a Gentoo VM on which I don't have any consoles on. I can watch the system boot up, but then I never get a prompt to log in. I know I need to launch /sbin/getty on c1 but do I need to do anything else?

My /etc/inittab:
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#
# /etc/inittab:  This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#                the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:  Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@cistron.nl>
### Modified by:  Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
# Modified by:  Daniel Robbins, <drobbins@gentoo.org>
# Modified by:  Martin Schlemmer, <azarah@gentoo.org>
# Modified by:  Mike Frysinger, <vapier@gentoo.org>
# Modified by:  Robin H. Johnson, <robbat2@gentoo.org>
#
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sysvinit/files/inittab-2.87,v 1.1 2010/01/08 16:55:07 williamh Exp $

# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit

# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot

l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhp
l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
l6r:6:wait:/sbin/reboot -dk
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin

# new-style single-user
su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single
su1:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
#c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

# SERIAL CONSOLES
#s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS1 vt100

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now

### Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
### Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
# info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
# extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
# to the "default" runlevel.
x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh

#co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty hvc0 9600 vt100-nav


Thanks in advance!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

on some of my boxes compiling i915 intel video driver OUT of my kernel fixed this.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't updated my kernel on this VM yet and I seem to remember having it before, so I don't think its a kernel thing.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what does

Code:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep 915


produce? :D
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

666threesixes666 wrote:
what does

Code:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep 915


produce? :D


Doesn't return anything.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there anything else besides /etc/inittab I should be considering?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stunirvana21 wrote:
Is there anything else besides /etc/inittab I should be considering?


Your init, perhaps? You can have all the things you want in /etc/inittab to no effect if your init doesn't care for it.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ManDay wrote:

Your init, perhaps? You can have all the things you want in /etc/inittab to no effect if your init doesn't care for it.


I don't quite understand what you mean by my init. Can you explain?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stunirvana21 wrote:
ManDay wrote:

Your init, perhaps? You can have all the things you want in /etc/inittab to no effect if your init doesn't care for it.


I don't quite understand what you mean by my init. Can you explain?


Among others, there are OpenRC and systemd. OpenRC is the default on Gentoo and uses /etc/inittab to bring up the consoles (perhaps this can be configured, I don't know). systemd does not care about inittab and instead uses its service definitions to determine what to bring up on start. If you don't know about these things, it's likely that you're using OpenRC in which case I don't know what's the problem. I'd try what 666 told you
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