So here comes my lame question... I recently re-installed sid on my laptop with d-i. It worked well for a few weeks. This is not really an install question, I know.
Yesterday I had a rather nasty crash when some X process stole my keyboard input and gnome wouldn't quit using the menus. I rebooted and things seemed to work on. Today, when I boot, I only boot to runlevel 2. I have no /dev/tty5 and no /dev/urandom. So, X won't start because it wants /dev/tty5 and init keeps complaining saying INIT: id "5" respawning too fast, disabling for 5 minutes. I know this is a common error, and I know that it means that something is failing in the /etc/rc5.d dir, but looking at dmesg, kern.log, and /etc/messages, I don't see any specific messages about something failing and bailing out to level 2. So, my question is, do we use devfs in sid/sarge? If not, can I just create /dev/tty5 again with mkdev and/or mknod? how? Who creates /dev/urandom? Is there some log that you suggest I look in to find which script is failing? any help is greatly apprecaited... thanks cardenas -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort." - The Three Qualities Necessary for Training
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