On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:

> When it boots it says:
> Mar  7 22:39:32 crunch getty[196]: /dev/ttyE0: Device not configured
> (on the serial console)

ttyE0 is configured automatically if it's the console. When it's not,
you need to uncomment the line for it in /etc/wscons.conf (per the
comment there). It may not be a bad idea to turn off the getty on
ttyE0 until you have the serial console set up to your satisfaction.

> This is what is currently on in /etc/ttys:
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3     on secure
> ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure
> ttyE1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure
> ttyE2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure
> ttyE3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure

> I did something wrong, or missed something, but it attempting to
> switch virtual consoles should probably not panic the machine.

True, but you'll probably have better luck if you don't try to run a
getty on the unconfigured virtual terminal.


Frederick