On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Erick Branderhorst wrote: > > Could anyone check and see if this problem is only occuring on my system? > I'm not sure if and how all of this goes on on my machine but I experienced > some > weirdness with shutdown/reboot/ctrl-alt-deb. It sometimes even didn't get > through the shutdown process, so I switched off.
I think I've solved the problem. It seems that init does some unexpected things to accomodate for people that use the serial line as system console. In a standard debian distribution /dev/console is a link to /dev/tty0 (c 4 0). Init expects /dev/console to be a link to the logical console and /dev/systty to be a link to the physical console (tty0, ttyS1 or similar). So when you do a halt with ctrl-alt-delete or shutdown now it links /dev/console to /dev/systty if they are not both linked to the same device. Now, I haven't managed to find any debian package that installs the /dev/systty-link, so when init redirects output to it it is created as a regular file, /dev/console is linked to it and things become kind of interesting. On my system I've linked /dev/console and /dev/systty to /dev/tty0 and things seem to be ok. Could this be a bug? I didn't find any systty in the Contents file on ftp.debian.org either.. As for my problem with xconsole. It seems that I removed an old startup-script for named that was placed in /etc/rc.boot so instead of named starting before syslog I now start syslog(S10) and later on named(S19), and when syslog start reciving stuff from named it stops using /dev/xconsole. (It works ok if I don't start named or start syslog after named.. WEIRD.) Vebby -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
