/dev/syscon (on the UNIX PC)

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <2426 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> richard at uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk) 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?
|>
|>I've forgotten the details now, but SysV used to have a bug whereby
|>it would misbehave if the syscon entry in the /dev directory occurred
|>before the console entry.
|>
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I don't think this is your problem.  I've seen this on a couple of machines
where for some reason (still unknown to me), /dev/syscon get's unlinked from
the other two names.

On my system...

crw-rw-rw-  1 root    sys       1,  0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/console 
				^ a total different device driver.
crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/syscon 
crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/systty 
crw-rw-rw-  3 root    sys       7,  0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/window 
	    ^ all linked together.

So to make sure things are right, just do this:

# ln /dev/window /dev/syscon
# ln /dev/window /dev/systty

This should solve your problems with the window manager...

-Lenny
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