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ma

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Registered: 2012-01-29

Posts: 54

agetty fails to start after switching out of single user mode

Every time I switch to runlevel 3 from single user mode, agetty fails with this error:

Jan 29 10:19:28 localhost agetty[1445]: /dev/tty1: cannot open as standard input: Input/output error

And since it fails, init disables it for 5 minutes… This always happens on the virtual console I run "init 3" on; the other consoles work fine.

This is how I run agetty from /etc/inittab:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 -a ma --noclear tty1 linux

Disabling auto-login and removing the --noclear option does not make any difference. Does anyone have a clue what is going on? It is more of an inconvenience than a problem, but still… I am using early KMS on an ATI Radeon 9550 card, by the way.

ma

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Registered: 2012-01-29

Posts: 54

Re: agetty fails to start after switching out of single user mode

So nobody else has been bitten by this stupid bug?

Anyway, it happens on a pure VGA console too, so it has nothing to do with the video driver. And I take back the “more of an inconvenience” part – it is freaking annoying that one can not just properly change the runlevel. Oh well…