[BusyBox] ctrl-c exits kills init:getty

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Thu Apr 24 23:20:21 UTC 2003


On Thu Apr 24, 2003 at 05:44:00PM -0500, Brian T. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently upgraded our Embedded distro from Busybox 0.60.0 to 0.60.5.  Most
> of the time now ctrl-c will kill getty when logged in through the console,
> and force users to log back in again.  I noticed that after upgrading, when
> the unit boots it prints out a "getty:" by itself on one line just before
> getting the /etc/issue login screen.  The older version of busybox didn't do
> this.  The unit will also print out "getty:" when ctrl-c is hit.  Has anyone
> else had this problem?  I ruled out that it is not Tinylogin (which is
> getty) since I rolled back to Tinylogin 0.80.0 and I had the same result.
> (running BB 0.60.0 and Tinylogin 1.4 I don't have this problem).  I am also
> using the 2.4.20 kernel.  Anyone else seen this?

When you say you are running on the console, are you really
running on /dev/console?  What does your /etc/inittab file
show?

 -Erik

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