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From: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Cannot login without sending HUP to getty
Date: 3 May 1993 22:00:31 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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Reply-To: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar)
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When my NetBSD system boots, it gives the usual login prompt, lets me enter 
the login namen normally, and then does not respond with the password
prompt, or echo characters on the screen, ie does nothing. 
I can rlogin normally, then send a HUP signal to getty, then it lets me
login normally on the console. So, whatever the problem is with the
console at boot time, goes away by sending a HUP signal to getty. The
same problem never occurs with rlogin.

This is not originally a NetBSD problem, I remember, it was OK when I
first installed NetBSD. In the early days, my machine crashed a lot due
to X problems, and I suspect some file got damaged.

I am using the pccons kernel with NetBSD, since I could not run XS3 with
the NetBSD kernel. Here is the only stty statement in /etc/rc*

stty status '^T'

I have already tried ftping a new pccons kernel. 
What else should I look at?
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Copyright KHUSHRO SHAHOOKAR,   $0.02
khushro@eecs.umich.edu   Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor