by Greetings!
Running an older Debian release with kernel 2.0.30 I am running into a
problem with adding more virtual consoles. Currently I have the first 12
consoles running just fine (F1-F12). I toyed with the idea of adding the
secondary level of virtual consoles (using the left ALT key to get
tty13-tty24).
After adding the appropriate lines (listed below) to the /etc/inittab I
get some strange reponses... Here is what I added (note that I have
since commented them out to get back to working order):
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty7
8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8
9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9
10:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty10
11:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty11
12:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty12
#13:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty13
#14:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty14
#15:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty15
#16:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty16
#17:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty17
#18:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty18
#19:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty19
#20:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty20
#21:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty21
#22:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty22
#23:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty23
#24:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty24
I then try both a "kill -HUP 1" and a "shutdown -r" to re-read the
inittab file. However, after logging into most of the virtual consoles
and going on about my business as usual - I eventually get the following
error.
...login sucessful
$
bash: fork: Try again.
$ who
bash: fork: Try again.
Once it appears on one virtual console, the rest start showing the same
response. I can login as root just fine (not signs of any problems at
all), but not my normal user accounts. I also get the same error when I
telnet to the machine from another machine. Since commenting out the
last 12 tty's I haven't had any errors. I even tried just adding a
couple extra virtual consoles, with the same problems.
Is there something else that I need to be doing? Does anyone have any
experience with such a problem? Any suggestions and/or help would be
most sincerely appreciated!!
Thanks in advance,
Marcus Hecht
--
=======================================================
Marcus Hecht PCs Made Easy
Support Specialist http://www.pcez.com
=======================================================