[Buildroot] Login exited

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 15:10:27 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:26:44PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
>>> I think the origin of the "can't open /dev/ttySxxx" problem is differ
>>> with the origin of the "getty exited" problem.  And, for the former, I
>>> think it has nothing to do with my device_table.txt,  since if I
>>> comment out the following line in etc/inittab:
>>>    ::sysinit:/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 none /dev
>>> and replace it with
>>>    ::sysinit:/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 none /dev
>>> then, the "can't open /dev/ttySxxx" problem gone away.  so I think,
>>
>> What is the difference between these two lines? I don't see one.
>
> Sorry for the careless.  The correct one should be:
>   ::sysinit:/bin/mount -t tmpfs none /dev
> That is, without any option.
>
>>
>>> But, as you know, this problem had been resoved, I finally get the
>>> login problem and the system is waiting for me to login.  My new
>>> problem is that I can not login.  When I type in user name 'root' at
>>> the prompt, I got the on-console log message:
>>>     Dec 31 17:24:45 ffcplus daemon.info init: init: process
>>> '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages' (pid 7568) exited. Scheduling for
>>> restart.
>>
>> Maybe you could boot your system with the command line "init=/bin/sh" so
>> that it skips all start up scripts and see what happens?
>
> Okay, I will try next when I go office.

sorry, I forgot to ask: where to put the command line?



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