On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:13:27PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > >  Sep 26 23:11:09 rainier init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> > > >  /dev/console, sleeping
> 
> > > I saw this "login:" prompt in my xconsole the last couple times I logged
> 
> > Do you have X running on the first tty ?
> 
> My X is running on ttyE4. My ttyE0 is running getty and login.

So you have getty on both ttyE0 and console ? As console is redirected to
ttyE0 this can lead to trouble as well ...

> 
> I manually started xdm from the first ttyE0 (I think it was the first
> one).

Hum, maybe in this case X started on ttyE0 ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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