marg@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Margarita Suarez) (06/24/89)
hi, i just inherited a mac II/X with an 80SC with A/UX. i've not been able to boot multi-user from the console -- what happens when i type "telinit 2" is an infinite loop of "login:" immediately followed by "Login incorrect" (didn't ask for password). i have a feeling that it could be a hardware problem, but i just wanted to ask here first on the chance that someone has seen this problem before and knows how to fix it. problem is that i don't think columbia has apple support for this disk, which was basically a "gift" from apple, so any help you could give me would be great! (i'd like to use this thing!) thanks marg
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (06/25/89)
In article <1618@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> marg@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Margarita Suarez) wrote: >hi, i just inherited a mac II/X with an 80SC with A/UX. i've not been >able to boot multi-user from the console -- what happens when i type >"telinit 2" is an infinite loop of "login:" immediately followed by >"Login incorrect" (didn't ask for password). This sounds like what happened once when I had two instances of `init' running at the same time (on a VAX). Each `init' starts a `getty' on each port, and each `getty' reads what the other `getty' on that port writes. Are you sure you're using the correct procedure to go to multi-user mode? Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-7277 karish@forel.stanford.edu
glenn@vail.gatech.edu (Glenn Souther) (06/27/89)
In article <1618@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> marg@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Margarita Suarez) writes: >hi, i just inherited a mac II/X with an 80SC with A/UX. i've not been >able to boot multi-user from the console -- what happens when i type >"telinit 2" is an infinite loop of "login:" immediately followed by >"Login incorrect" (didn't ask for password). > >i have a feeling that it could be a hardware problem, but i just wanted >to ask here first on the chance that someone has seen this problem >before and knows how to fix it. > >problem is that i don't think columbia has apple support for this disk, >which was basically a "gift" from apple, so any help you could give me >would be great! (i'd like to use this thing!) > >thanks > >marg I have seen a similar problem here. However, in our case the machine stays up for a while, and later when an account name is entered at login: the machine immediately responds with "login incorrect" without asking for a password. We can, however, login to the machine via telnet or rlogin. We have seen this problem when some process has the console assigned (toolboxdaemon). Killing and restarting the daemon fixes the problem. However, I have also seen the problem where nothing is assigned to the console. I have reported the problem to apple, but have had no response from them. Glenn Souther Office of Computing Services Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!glenn ARPA: glenn@vail.gatech.edu BITNET: CC100GS@GITNVE2 Ma Bell: (404) 894-6176
certain@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Certain) (06/27/89)
In article <1618@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> marg@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Margarita Suarez) writes: >hi, i just inherited a mac II/X with an 80SC with A/UX. i've not been >able to boot multi-user from the console -- what happens when i type >"telinit 2" is an infinite loop of "login:" immediately followed by >"Login incorrect" (didn't ask for password). In article <8595@pyr.gatech.EDU> glenn@aspen.ga.UUCP (Glenn Souther) writes: >I have seen a similar problem here. However, in our case the machine stays up >for a while, and later when an account name is entered at login: the machine >immediately responds with "login incorrect" without asking for a password. I have also experienced this problem. I haven't yet determined what the cause is, but if you have an account that doesn't require a password, you can log in with that. For other reasons, we had an account set up that would, if you were at the console and typed "reboot" at the login prompt, reboot the machine. Since this syncs the disks, it isn't as harsh as hitting the reboot switch. One day, when this problem arose, I typed reboot at the login prompt to reboot the machine, but instead of rebooting the machine, it cleared up the problem..... Believe it, or not. The reboot login is very simple... The .login has logout in it, and .logout says if tty = console then sync;sync;sync;reboot (written more precisely in C-Shell script). I don't claim that this will work everytime or even at all, and I don't claim that it won't actually reboot your machine. Proceed at your own risk. I'm just telling you my experience. Andrew Certain certain@cs.unc.edu
johlas@addamax.UUCP (06/29/89)
In response to the console locking up on AUX: My AUX used to exhibit this problem and I believe I fixed it by changing the line in /etc/inittab for the console getty to: co::respawn:/etc/getty console co_9600 </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 Check using "ps -e" to see if the getty's terminal is console. Good luck :-) John Johlas Addamax 2009 Fox Drive Champaign, IL 61820