bill@zycor.UUCP (bill) (08/12/89)
Has anyone ever seen this problem, or can anyone else give me additional information on this? I have uPort 2.3L V/AT running on an old system. Occasionally (every few months) the system will panic with a double fault. This seems to happen when the modem on /dev/ttyM0 is either in use or has just been in use within a few seconds. When you reboot, the system says "INIT: LOGIN ERROR" or some such, and throws you into S user mode. Unfortunately you can not type anything. The solution is to reboot off of the floppy, fsck and mount /dev/dsk/0s0, and go chmod 666 /dev/cons*. They seem to all be write only (222) for some reason. Occasionally they are owned by someone besides root, as well. In any case, you sync and umount, then reboot and it comes right up. This is an infrequent problem, so it is not a big problem (outside of taking me a while to track down the first time) but I am curious as to the cause... Any ideas anyone??? -- Bill Mahoney bill@zycor.UUCP Warning: Driver breaks for 2400 baud.