On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Paulussen Edmond wrote: > Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 > Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, > connection with my ISP,... and got it working. > > Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username & > password) I get following error message: > > "login [128] unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user root > Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: illegal seek" > > I get the error message at every login (root, normal user) > > What is the problem?
I don't know. > What have I done wrong? Maybe nothing. > What is the solution? I can only say what I would try: Use a rescue floppy to boot from. Mount your root partition and cd to the /dev directory. Look at the owner and permissions of the tty1 psuedo terminal. Change the owner, group and permissions of /dev/tty1 to reasonable settings. An example after booting from rescue floppy. Mount the root under /mnt # mount -t ext2 /dev/your-root-patition # cd /mnt/dev # ls -l tty1 crw------- 1 jf tty 4, 1 Dec 30 14:00 /dev/tty1 # chown root.tty tty1 # chmod 666 tty1 # reboot > > Paulussen Edmond > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Jim
