I'm having difficulty accessing my VPS' console via lish - both AJAX and SSH interfaces. I'm running a custom Gentoo installation, currently booting using 2.6.27.4-x86_64-linode3.

It gets as far as 'Starting local', then freezes. The server itself continues to boot correctly - and it can be accessed using SSH etc.

Other posts around the forums seem to suggest that it's a tty issue - however I have been unable to resolve it using the advice given.

grep -v \# /etc/inittab

id:3:initdefault:

si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit

rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot

l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot

c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now

x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh

Any help would be appreciated.

do you have xenify distro on in your boot config?

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I have tried both on and off, with no effect.

I'm not sure if this makes any difference, but my Linodes all run a getty on terminal 0, not terminal 1:

c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux

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/ Peter

I just tried that, and still no luck.

Problem solved: I needed to have a getty running on hvc0!

If you have xenify distro on in your config, that should be done for you automatically, btw.