Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SYSTEM logins weird
Message-ID: <9302@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 21:24:16 GMT
References: <9527@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9527@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hurf@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
> uVaxII, Ultrix3.1
> 	
> 	We just had to shutdown and reboot a system to switch some disks.
> We had to halt the thing during one of the reboots. Ran fsck on /dev/ra0a after booting up single user - it made some minor repairs on one inode.
> After that the
> logins to the hardware ttys aren't there even though the gettys are running.
> Additionally the login prompt nolonger displays the hostname: just 'login'
> 
> The network ports and the console and X term logins all work but the dhv ports
> have gone south. I checked /etc/ttys /dev,  - can't see any thing wrong - 
> a 'cat /etc/ttys >/dev/tty08' gets nothing out tty08...
> Our dhv is a dilog 1620 16 port board.

Pretty spooky!

Check that the /dev entries still show up as "character" type special files
with rational major and minor device numbers, and also reasonable ownership/
protections.

Check that /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab haven't been "improved".

Look at /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog (or wherever you have syslog going) - this
is where init/getty/login report their problems.

Finally if you have hardcopy take the inode number and use "dcheck -i" to
see what it was.  See if anything interesting has shown up in lost+found.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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