[CLUE-Tech] login problems - never mind

[Charlie Oriez]

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On Monday 19 November 2001 16:32, you wrote:
> Charlie Oriez wrote:
> > Anyone know what char-major-4 is? Can't find that one either, but
> > no harm apparently done.
>
> Either tty* or ttyS*.  Those are virtual consoles or serial ports.
>

weirder and weirder.  I aliased out char-major-180, but not 
char-major-4.  I now occasionally, but not often, get the same login 
problem.  First time I did, I rebooted into console mode, couldnt 
figure out anything to do, and rebooted into kde mode fine.  Since 
then, when I get the kde problem, I reboot to console, signin as 
root, then reboot to kde.  Something in that console boot is clearing 
the problem, but I have no idea what.

> If you have it, all the device numbers are listed in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (that's part of the kernel
> source tree - perhaps distros move it to a docs dir somewhere).
>
> Dave

thanks.  Mandrake 8.0 puts it in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.3/  
They also have a netdevices.txt file in the same directory.  

4 is tty.

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