Hi all,
I'm having a disturbing problem with getty i fbsd (fbsd 4.5 on a compaq laptop). One day, when the boot process was complete, my logs were spammed with messages from getty:
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2676]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2676]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2678]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2678]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2680]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2680]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2682]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2682]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2684]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop getty[2684]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation not supported by device
May 20 21:27:10 laptop init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs
May 20 21:27:10 laptop init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs
As you see, getty restarts itself, over and over again, which causes a very high load on the box (not to mention /var/log/messages being spammed). I have'nt touched any configuration files conserning getty, this problem just turned up one day (as mentioned above).
I would be very thankfull for any help. I don't wish to do a reinstall.
//Jakob Stasilowicz - kuba@kuba.hack.se
UNIXSweden - unixsweden.net