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Unable to identify tty name error on new install

Hi. Just installed slackware 13.0 32bits using the usb-based netinstall. Did a minimal cli install and unchecked bash (since I wanted to use tcsh on this particular OS). But now on first boot it tells me that it shows an error message indicating "unable to identify tty name" and won't let me login (I'm using the root account since I haven't yet set up additional users). My question is, is the error happening because I unselected bash during installation? If so, is there any config file that I can modify to get it to recognize tcsh and let me log in? or if that isn't the problem, where do I set then the tty name?

Do you get this error after you try to login?

/etc/passwd contains the name of the shell that is executed when a user logs in. It is set to /bin/bash by default.

I had already edited my slackware /etc/passwd (using nano from my ubuntu partition)
it looks like this:

Code:

root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/tcsh

bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/false

daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/false

adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/log:/bin/false

lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/false

sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync

shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown

halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt

mail:x:8:12:mail:/:/bin/false

news:x:9:13:news:/usr/lib/news:/bin/false

uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/bin/false

operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash

games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:/bin/false

ftp:x:14:50::/home/ftp:/bin/false

smmsp:x:25:25:smmsp:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/bin/false

mysql:x:27:27:MySQL:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false

rpc:x:32:32:RPC portmap user:/:/bin/false

sshd:x:33:33:sshd:/:/bin/false

gdm:x:42:42:GDM:/var/state/gdm:/bin/tcsh

oprofile:x:51:51:oprofile:/:/bin/false

apache:x:80:80:User for Apache:/srv/httpd:/bin/false

messagebus:x:81:81:User for D-BUS:/var/run/dbus:/bin/false

haldaemon:x:82:82:User for HAL:/var/run/hald:/bin/false

pop:x:90:90:POP:/:/bin/false

nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/bin/false

And this is my slackware's /bin directory (mounted in my ubuntu partition under /Slack):

Code:

Ghost-Rider@CrackBox-X64:/Slack/bin$ ls

[              egrep      Mail          readlink  touch

arch          env        md5sum        red        tr

awk            expand      mkdir          rm        true

base64        expr        mkfifo        rmdir      truncate

basename      factor      mknod          rpm        tsort

bunzip2        false      mktemp-gnu    runcon    tty

bzcat          fgrep      more          rzip      umount

bzip2          fmt        mount          sed        uname

bzip2recover  fold        mt-GNU        seq        uncompress

cat            free        mv            setterm    unexpand

chcon          gawk        nail          sh        uniq

chgrp          gawk-3.1.6  netstat        sha1sum    unlink

chmod          getopt      nice          sha224sum  users

chown          ginstall    nisdomainname  sha256sum  usleep

chroot        grep        nl            sha384sum  vdir

cksum          groups      nohup          sha512sum  wc

comm          gunzip      ntfs-3g        shred      which

compress      gzexe      ntfs-3g.probe  shuf      who

cp            gzip        ntfscat        sleep      whoami

cpio          head        ntfscluster    sort      xz

csh            hostid      ntfscmp        split      yes

csplit        hostname    ntfsfix        stat      ypdomainname

cut            id          ntfsinfo      stty      zcat

date          install    ntfsls        su        zcmp

dd            ipmask      od            sulogin    zdiff

df            join        paste          sum        zegrep

dialog        kill        pathchk        sync      zfgrep

dir            killall    ping          tac        zforce

dircolors      link        ping6          tail      zgrep

dirname        ln          pinky          tar        zless

dmesg          loadkeys    pr            tar-1.13  zmore

dnsdomainname  login      printenv      tar-1.22  znew

domainname    logname    printf        tcsh

du            ls          ps            tee

echo          lsmod      ptx            test

ed            mail        pwd            timeout

Ghost-Rider@CrackBox-X64:/Slack/bin$

It should work, but it's still not working, duno why.

All boot scripts need bash so you need bash.

You can always install tcsh and set it as the default shell for any of your users (the `adduser` script asks you for your default shell when adding users), but the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/ require bash. You should definitely install bash (you can boot with a USB installer, mount your root partition, and install bash using the --root option of installpkg) and make sure that /bin/sh points to /bin/bash. If you want to omit bash then you would need to modify any startup scripts to make them 100% POSIX-compliant so you could use something like ash, or rewrite them to use tcsh. The easiest solution is still to install bash and just set tcsh as your default shell for each user.