[ELDK] tty Probs with booting core-minimal-mtdutils rootfs

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Axel Beierlein,

In message <50225A60.2060700 at freenet.de> you wrote:
> 
> [...]
> getty: ioctl() TIOCSPGRP call failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> ELDK 5.2.1 generic-powerpc console
> 
> generic-powerpc login:
> [...]
> 
> Where this comes from?

It comes from the fact that we use the generic "/dev/console" for the
console login.

> After login it prints:
> 
> [...]
> -sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> -sh: no job control in this shell
> [...]
> 
> I also can't kill a process with Strg-C in the Terminal.

This is the consequence of not being able to set up a process group,
see error message above...

> Adding a ttyPSC0 device to dev/ and changing tty in the getty call at

There should be no need to add anything to /dev; the ttyPSC? nodes
should be auto-created by udev.  If they are not on your system, then
you have a problem.

> inittab doesn't fix this Prob.

Yes, it does, at least for me.  With this change:

-S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 console
+S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyPSC0

I can login without errors, and job control is working fine:

	ELDK 5.2.1 generic-powerpc ttyPSC0

	generic-powerpc login: root
	root at generic-powerpc:~# sleep 30
	[1]+  Stopped                    sleep 30
	root at generic-powerpc:~# bg
	[1] sleep 30
	root at generic-powerpc:~# fg
	sleep 30
	^C
	root at generic-powerpc:~# 



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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