Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> How did you build /sbin/init? (Did you use a ramdisk-big script that set
> the LETS_GET_SMALL directive? If so, the functions to run the system
> startup script, to read the ttys(5) and to run getty are not built.)

I simply went to /usr/src/sbin/init and did a 'make clean; make'. The makefile does not seem to have the LETS_GET_SMALL defined. When I do the make I don't see it in the compiler output either.

(from 'crunchgen -m Makefile file.conf')
cc -Os  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unin
itialized -Wreturn-type -Wpointer-arith -Wswitch -Wshadow  -Werror  -DMFS_DEV_IF
_NO_CONSOLE -DALTSHELL -DSECURE   -c /usr/src/sbin/init/init.c

(from 'make clean; clean')
bash-2.05b# make clean; make
rm -f init.o  init.ln
rm -f a.out [Ee]rrs mklog core *.core init
/usr/src/tools/obj/tools.NetBSD-1.6_STABLE-i386/bin/i386--netbsdelf-gcc -O2  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wreturn-type -Wpointer-arith -Wswitch -Wshadow  -Werror  -DMFS_DEV_IF_NO_CONSOLE -DALTSHELL -DSECURE -nostdinc -isystem /usr/include  -c init.c
/usr/src/tools/obj/tools.NetBSD-1.6_STABLE-i386/bin/i386--netbsdelf-gcc  -static -o init -nostdlib  /usr/lib/crt0.o /usr/lib/crtbegin.o init.o -lutil -lcrypt -L/usr/lib  -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtend.o

> 
> Also, do you have a /etc/ttys file? If the ttys(5) is empty, then (if I
> read the code correctly), it won't run a getty (because of no "session").

I did include a standard /etc/ttys file.

> 
> Or another idea: If I am reading the code correctly, if dbopen can't
> create a temporary database (maybe because filesystem not writable), then
> it fails to get to the getty step. The code uses dbopen(NULL, ...). I
> don't know if this temporary database is in memory or disk.
> 
Is this in init or another program?


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Brian