Re: linux-2.6.31 INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error (due to commit b50989dc444599c8b21edc23536fc305f4e9b7d5)

["Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Jeff Chua wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
>>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>>> Is this going into Linus's branch soon? Otherwise, please kindly post
>>>>> the full patch so that I can test it instead of pulling 400MB from
>>>>> Andrew's tree.
>>>> I don't have Andrews tty patches here either sorry but I thought he kept
>>>> them broken out on kernel.org ?
>>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
>>> see the broken-out/ subdir.
>>
>> I see. But that patch is not there. Did find it on google.
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg71772.html
>>
>> So, I'll test it now.
>
> Alan, Randy,
>
> That patch works!
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff

Here, it doesn't fix 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125382651922142&w=2

But I found something in syslog:

Sep 25 16:17:31 pervalidus agetty[1465]: /dev/tty2: No such file or directory
Sep 25 16:17:31 pervalidus agetty[1464]: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
Sep 25 16:17:31 pervalidus agetty[1466]: /dev/tty3: No such file or directory
...

So, why it works with 2.6.30.7 and not 2.6.30.1 ?

And I also noticed that it takes longer with 2.6.30.7 than 
before for the login and password prompts to appear.

In /etc/inittab, I have

c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux (yes, nothing 
about vc/4 in the logs)

So, with 2.6.30, udev doesn't create the symlinks from vc/*, or 
it's something in the kernel that prevents it ?