Vodz, i think you may have introduced a bug in /busybox/libbb/get_console.c version 1.4 Change from if (tty_name) { if (-1 == (fd = open_a_console(tty_name))) { return -1; } else { return fd; } } <other code> To if (-1 == (fd = open_a_console("/dev/console"))) return -1; else return fd; <other code> In the second case <other code> is never reached.