Re: [Xen-users] No login prompt

[Robbie Dinn <robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Czerwinski wrote:
> thanks for the tip - i put /bin/bash instead of getty in my inittab and  
> came directly (w/o login) to the prompt. All commands ok, but:
> ps shows just '?' in the TTY-column. Calling getty 9600 /dev/tty1 
> results  - as before - in a hang in my current shell.
> In other words: has anybody got an idea how to convince debian that the  
> shell I am in is /dev/tty1?
Here is another idea, could be nonsense. Or insecure.

what about trying some charater device other than /dev/tty1 ?

/dev/tty
/dev/console
/dev/tty0

assuming one of them works, you might want to adjust
/etc/securetty .

Hope that helps

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