after installing default-sparc64-1.0 on my Ultra Enterprise 1 I found that I could not login. Instead I got messages from INIT about c1,c2,c3,c4,c5, and c6 respawning too fast. c1-c6 are the agetty's for the tty's that would have been present on a machine that had a graphics card. This machine does not have a framebuffer. After some investigation I resolved the problem by editing 2 files. 1. /etc/inittab under #TERMINALS I commented out the 6 existing terminal lines and added another line: "s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt102" 2. /etc/securetty adding ttyS0 did not work in my case, I needed to add "tts/0" I guess that's the devfs name, ttyS0 should work on a machine without devfs. I think that these changes should be included in a future revision of the scripts, of course the s1 line in inittab should probably be commented out by default, and a note added to the sparc installation guide. (should that be a separate documentation bug?) I can't think of any other systems that have this potential problem, everyone else has a monitor. :) thanks, Chris.
Fixed in shadow (for securetty) and baselayout (for inittab/rc.conf).
