mingetty is running, but not taking the console.

[Milton Calnek]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:47 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to port upstart 0.5.1 to CentOS.
> > I am now at a point where my machine boots,  most jobs are starting
> > properly.
> >
> > So I can ssh into the box, but the tty's don't take the virtual
> > consoles... I don't see /etc/issue on the screen.
> >
> This is probably not an Upstart issue, as Upstart has no control over
> ttys - check that your mingetty scripts and configuration are written
> properly.
>

I'm reasonably sure that the scripts are the default 0.3.9 examples.

I dug a little deeper and found that mingetty was trying to ioctl(TIOCSCTTY)
where the process needs to be  a leader of some sort. This was failing with
eperm (not the session? leader).

Thanks.
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