On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote:
> I am having the strangest problem. [...]
Okay, that's weird.
> As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode,
> unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k
> with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r now') to show
> how fsck worked (new admin) - well, it also checked my RAID- seems that
> something didn't work right when rebooting in single-user mode. So, it
> checks the disks, and everything is fine. Except that ppp dosen't work.
Since things work from a rescue disk, and the original problem came from
an fsck, have you tried deleting and recreating the /dev/tty* device
files? I didn't see that listed in your attempts, and it's about the only
other thing I can come up with.
Do an "ls -l" on the broken ones and on a working machine, and see if
they differ. Even if they don't, it'd probably be a good idea to delete
and re-MAKEDEV them. Good luck!
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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