Running Gentoo. Hadn't rebooted since January, despite the security advisory for kernel. Finally decided to emerge -uDN world, then rebooted latest kernel.

At the end of initialization, I never get a console login prompt via LiSH. I can ssh, and everything is running OK. So, this is more of an annoyance, at this point, but I would like to regain console access.

I can't figure out if the problem is the kernel update, or one of the 84 upgraded distro packages. (From all the updates, only sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11.1 stands out as a possible suspect.)

Any ideas on how to debug this?

You likely accepted etc-updates that you shouldn't have.

Make sure your /etc/inittab has a getting listening on tty0 (tty1 for Xen). The other getty lines should be commented out. Save, then run "init q". A login prompt should appear on your console.

-Chris

Chris,

As is usually the case, you're right! A an update to sys-apps/sysvinit provided a new /etc/inittab, and when I merged it I must've let it remove this line:

c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty0 linux

Thanks for the stellar support, even for non VPS issues like this one. I *love* my Linode.

I'm having a similar problem, but this doesn't fix it for me. When I try to connect using LISH, it gets to "Starting anacron: [ OK ]" and just sits there. I have

0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty0

in my inittab and I tried to replace it with

c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty0 linux

but it didn't seem to help. I tried disabling everything but the essential services, but I don't know where else go go from here. Any advice?

Are you running Xen or UML? ("Xenodes" will have the Xen logo in the upper right hand corner of the member dashboard)

I don't see a zen logo, so I guess it must be UML.