/dev/syscon

[Bruce Becker]

In article <212 at denwa.uucp> jimmy at denwa.uucp writes:
>A friend's 3B1 often boots up such that when he logs in he is on
>/dev/syscon rather than on /dev/w1.  Similarly, windy won't work.  It
>looks like the Window Manager is having problems, but the question is
>why.  I checked his /etc/rc and /etc/inittab and they are both
>identical to mine.  All the standard processes are listed with a ps,
>but the wmgr appears to use a suspicously low amount of CPU.  Any ideas?
>
>Thanks...
>-- 
>Jim G.        E-Mail: <jimmy at denwa.uucp>  or  <jimmy at pic.ucla.edu>
>^^^^^^    V-Mail: (213) 551-7702  Fax: 478-3060  The-Real-Me: 824-5454

You should check /dev. "ls -il /dev" should show that '/dev/window'
is the same inode as '/dev/syscon' & '/dev/systty' -

  115 crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       1,  0 Jan  1  1970 console 
  [...]
  180 crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 syscon 
  180 crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 systty 
  [...]
   51 crw-rw-rw-  1 bdb     users     7,  1 Sep 27 10:43 w1 
   52 crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       7,  2 Sep 27 10:38 w2 
   53 crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       7,  3 Sep 27 09:33 w3 
   54 crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       7,  4 May  1 22:35 w4 
   48 crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       7,  5 Sep 27 10:46 w5 
  [...]
  180 crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 window 

  If syscon or systty is wrong, delete & 'ln' to window.

Cheers,
-- 
Bruce Becker        Toronto, Ont.
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