Re: heads up? (Unbootable kernel)

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:05:30AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:01:23AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:50:08PM +0000, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost 
> wrote:
>  >  > A kernel I've got (amd64, custom config) is failing to display login
>  >  > prompt with referencecs to /usr/libexec/getty, /dev/console not being
>  >  > available, and an issue w/ fmt in rc.d; I'll look into it, but thought
>  >  > I'd get the word out in case this is legit and anybody else gets stung:
>  >  > Make sure to keep  aworking kernel in /netbsd.bak or similar ;)
>  > 
>  > If you got vfs_lookup.c 1.185, it's bad. Update to 1.186 or 1.187.
>  > 
>  > sorry about that.
> 
> Oh, and for the record, it passed two full anita runs despite being
> bad.

OK -- that boot issue is solved, but a new one for allocating ttys has cropped 
up, manifests itself w/ xterms failing to launch:

open ttydev: No such file or directory
open ttydev: No such file or directory
open ttydev: No such file or directory
open ttydev: No such file or directory
open ttydev: No such file or directory
open ttydev: No such file or directory
...

> -- 
> David A. Holland
> dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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