On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50, Melody Bliss <melodybliss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hrm. Interesting.
>
> I believe hvc0 is your console on this VM and it looks like a getty is
> running.
>
> Have you tried killing the agetty on hvc0 (process 4143). It should
> respawn. If it doesn't, send a -HUP signal to init. That should force
> init to re-read /etc/inittab and respawn missing processes.
>
No joy.
The console indeed shows agetty restarting by emitting a new set of
lines "This is bla bla bla ... login:"
But still no keyboard input.
> You may need to trace the getty process and see what it's doing at the time.
>
Uhh... trace? You went over my head there... :-P
> Mel
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 02:56, Melody Bliss <melodybliss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Check /etc/inittab. Do you still have a console device?
>>>
>>
>> # TERMINALS
>> #c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
>> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux
>> c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
>> c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
>> #c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
>> #c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
>> #c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
>>
>>> When connected to the console, on another terminal, after logging in
>>> via ssh, type "echo test > /dev/console"
>>>
>>> does test show up on the console connection? If so, the console is
>>> connected, but getty may not be running on it.
>>>
>>
>> "test" appeared
>>
>> ps aux | grep agetty returns:
>>
>> root 4143 0.0 0.1 5984 768 hvc0 Ss+ 10:39 0:00
>> /sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux
>> root 4144 0.0 0.1 5984 768 tty2 Ss+ 10:39 0:00
>> /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
>> root 4145 0.0 0.1 5984 768 tty3 Ss+ 10:39 0:00
>> /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
>>
>>> We had a similar issue where the inittab somehow got
>>> overwritten/modified that removed the console getty
>>>
>>> Mel
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying to run Gentoo paravirtualized on XenServer.
>>>>
>>>> It *is* running... except that the XenServer console refused any
>>>> input, so I can't login via the console.
>>>>
>>>> Login via SSH is okay, though.
>>>>
>>>> What makes me confused is that the console properly shows the bootup
>>>> process, up to and including the "login:" prompt. But I can't type
>>>> anything.
>>>>
>>>> What could be the problem?
>>>>
>>>> FYI, I am using Gentoo's hardened-sources
>>>>
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