From: Bob Booth - UIUC (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 11:10:25 EDT
2 cents:
'getty' and 'login' are both 'tsm'. It is not related to your old tty console
and it may have something to do with an improper mode setting on the graphics
display (between the card and the actual tube), or it could be a down rev
driver, or incompatible graphics card.
'dup' is the like the 'fcntl' system call, and is used to deal with opening
file descriptors (ie. OUTFD). It may be attempting operate/lock/unlock the
device for some operation, and expecting -1 as a rc.
Do you have a custom herald displayed on the console? Do you run any type
of terminal services program that may try to take over the console device?
Hope some of this helps.
bob
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:24:43PM +1000, Conran, John J wrote:
> I have recently been assigned a new server to administer and have noticed
> the
> following error appearing frequently (every few minutes or so) in the syslog
>
> Mar 27 11:12:55 viper tsm: /dev/lft0: 3004-028 - dup failed. OUTFD != -1
>
> Tracking back on system changes, a graphics card was installed in the p630
> server at around this date/time. The server also runs tsm client software
> for
> backups although I cannot be certain that the 'tsm' in the error actually
> refers
> to the backup software.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into what is causing this error message.
>
> The server runs AIX 5.1.
> The console is defined as /dev/lft0.
> There is no dumb terminal attached as tty0 although the server did
> have one connected when it was originally delivered.
> /etc/inittab has respawn of tty0 disabled.
>
> thanks
> John Conran
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