mingetty is running, but not taking the console.

[Scott James Remnant]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:46 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote:

> 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).
> 
Odd, this usually means that the tty is owned by something else.

Which "console" line do you have?  Try a variation of "output" or
"owner"

Scott
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