Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:

> But some other problems remain and the real
> issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! :
>
>
> cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root     0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../
> crw-------   1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9
>
>
> And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?

That does not look right.
Char dev 3 is the pty major.
This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.

Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0

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Paul Fulghum
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