Re: HELP!! "Unable to open initial console"

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:03:49 +0100


Horst van Brand wrote:

>Come on, the application is certainly in a position to interpret the errno
>for the user if it so wishes: It knows what it was doing, and if opening a
>file (or whatever) fails, it can go look around what went wrong. Sure, it's
>easier just to perror(3).

But `Unable to open an initial console' is generated by the kernel (look in
init/main.c), not by any application. It does this to get the file handles
that are passed to init proper as standard output and so on.

p.

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