System Unusable after initial installation.

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:22:50PM -0700, Bob Van Cleef wrote:
> 2 - Log in as root: (using password that failed in previous step)
> 	"sh: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: No such device or address)"
> 	"sh: warning: won't have full job control"
>     ls -l /dev/tty
> 	"crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5,0 ... /dev/tty"
>     If you try to run anything that is interactive, like vi, you see:
> 	"[1] + stopped (tty output) vi /etc/group"

Something is wrong with /bin/login or /bin/sh.
If you have bash installed and type "chsh -s /bin/bash" after logging in
as root, then log out and log in again (with new shell) - it will work.


-- 
Jakub Bogusz
http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~qboosh/