[pkg-fso-maint] nodm 0.6-1 , cannot open /dev/tty7 [with fix]

[Visti Andresen]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:05:57 +0200
Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 14:23 +0200 schrieb Visti Andresen:
> > I'm having some problems with nodm as well
> > 
> > debian-gta02:~# nodm 
> > nodm: cannot open /dev/tty7: No such file or directory
> > nodm: cannot allocate a virtual terminal
> > 
> > This is with nodm 0.6-1
> > I have tried to purge it and reinstall it...
> > 
> > An indeed
> > debian-gta02:~# ls -l /dev/tty*
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root      5,  0 Jul 28 13:33 /dev/tty
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  0 Jul 28 13:33 /dev/tty0
> > crw------- 1 root root      4,  1 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty1
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  2 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty2
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  3 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty3
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  4 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty4
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  5 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty5
> > crw-rw---- 1 root root      4,  6 Jul 28 13:34 /dev/tty6
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 204, 64 Jul 28 13:33 /dev/ttySAC0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 204, 65 Jul 28 13:33 /dev/ttySAC1
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 204, 66 Jul 28 13:33 /dev/ttySAC2
> > 
> > Creating it with mknod dos not seem to fix the problem...
> 
> did you install these days? Then please paste the contents
> of /etc/default/nodm.
> 

I upgraded just before the issue arose. The install is perhaps a month old.
The quick FIX was installing the Debian kernel 2.6.29 as it contains lots of ttys.

I suppose I should have looked for newer kernel versions after/while I did the upgrade :)

(now I am having problems with wifi (I seem to remember something about wifi and 2.6.29), but it is not a show stopper)


-- 
Visti Andresen