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Click here for more info. |  |  02-14-2004, 08:30 PM | #1 | johnnybezak Member Registered: Oct 2003 Location: Bendigo, Australia Distribution: Have used Yellow Dog, thinking Mandrake for X86 System Posts: 46 Rep:  | can't access tty; job control turned off Ok I've just finished a gentoo install and it appears that the bootloader and kernel are working ie. im booting and there arent any kernel error messages, the problem is this - after the boot up ticks along nicely i run into this error message /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off 1st - what does this mean? - ive looked around and i think it means that the terminal isnt working. 2nd - what would cause it? 3rd - how do i fix it? after the error message i get a built in shell called ash and it has a few commands - like kill, cp, cd, ls etc. but nothing usefull and i can't access any of the programs that i know are on there - what can i do? Thanks in advance, tom | | johnnybezak | | View Public Profile | | View LQ Blog | | View Review Entries | | Find More Posts by johnnybezak | | 02-14-2004, 08:40 PM | #2 | | hw-tph Senior Member Registered: Sep 2003 Location: Sweden Distribution: Debian Posts: 3,032 Rep: | 1. Yes, that's pretty much it.  2. On several newer systems, using the "Enhanced PCI access mode" setting in your computer's BIOS (or something to the same effect) will cause this. I have no idea why, but disabling it is a good start. Also, a misconfigured 2.6 series kernel will also generate similar errors. You will want the options CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y, CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 and CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y when configuring your kernel to have proper virtual (and actual) console access. 3. goto 2  Håkan | | hw-tph | | View Public Profile | | View LQ Blog | | View Review Entries | | Visit hw-tph's homepage! | | Find More Posts by hw-tph | | 02-14-2004, 09:01 PM | #3 | | johnnybezak Member Registered: Oct 2003 Location: Bendigo, Australia Distribution: Have used Yellow Dog, thinking Mandrake for X86 System Posts: 46 Original Poster Rep: | thanks man - the thing is im not using 2.6 but 2.4.22 however i will try that enhanced pci access mode | | johnnybezak | | View Public Profile | | View LQ Blog | | View Review Entries | | Find More Posts by johnnybezak | | 02-14-2004, 09:08 PM | #4 | | johnnybezak Member Registered: Oct 2003 Location: Bendigo, Australia Distribution: Have used Yellow Dog, thinking Mandrake for X86 System Posts: 46 Original Poster Rep: | ok i couldnt find the "enhanced pci access mode" so thats a no-go any other ideas? | | johnnybezak | | View Public Profile | | View LQ Blog | | View Review Entries | | Find More Posts by johnnybezak | | 02-21-2004, 11:49 PM | #5 | | johnnybezak Member Registered: Oct 2003 Location: Bendigo, Australia Distribution: Have used Yellow Dog, thinking Mandrake for X86 System Posts: 46 Original Poster Rep: | well i gave up in the end and just did a reinstall which worked, there mustve been something that id mucked up | | johnnybezak | | View Public Profile | | View LQ Blog | | View Review Entries | | Find More Posts by johnnybezak | | Thread Tools |  Show Printable Version |  Email this Page | | Search this Thread | | Advanced Search |  Posting Rules | | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Forum Rules | |  Similar Threads | | Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post | | sh: can't access tty; job control turned off. | shadowsa | SUSE / openSUSE | 2 | 11-21-2005 12:13 PM | | control job turned off | greythorne | SUSE / openSUSE | 0 | 08-14-2005 03:58 AM | | sh: can't access tty, job control turned off | tgardner | Linux - Software | 1 | 06-07-2003 01:39 AM | | Pseudo-TTY Control Under Linux | nitr0gen | Programming | 0 | 03-21-2002 01:49 PM | | control aliases by tty | cinnix | Linux - General | 2 | 07-31-2001 11:43 AM | LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - General All times are GMT -5. 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