"Respawning too fast" errors after updates

Tue Nov 12 10:38:44 EST 2002

Your initial set of updates includes 'dev-3.3-4'

This might have changed some of the device definitions in /dev.

"Bill Horne" wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek Martin" <ddm at sophic.org>
> 
> 
> > At some point hitherto, Bill Horne hath spake thusly:
> > > crw-------    1 root     root     217, 168 Apr 11  2002 /dev/tty4
> > 
> > Uh, yeah.  That's just plain wrong.  Try this:
> > 
> >   # rm /dev/tty4
> >   # mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4
> > 
> > I think that'll solve the problem.
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Derek D. Martin
> 
> Derek,
> 
> It did, and thank you. 
> 
> Now, for the post-mortem: what would cause that change?
> 
> Bill
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