Lost login prompts on console after reboot

[MonocleMike]

I rebooted the system from a telnet session on a pseudo terminal and now I've lost the login prompts on the console. I last made this mistake 5 years ago and I've forgotten the simple trick to get them back. Please can someone remind an old man

 

[pmcmicha]

Was the kernal rebuilt during this process due to some change that was made?

 

[Wonboodoo]

Are you sure you are using the right console? SCO can be configured to run the console on the serial port and/or the attached monitor.

The console logins are spawned by "init" based on entries in /etc/inittab. Check that they are there. They should probably look like:
co:2345:respawn:/etc/getty tty01 sc_m
co1:1:respawn:/bin/sh -c "sleep 20; exec /etc/getty tty01 sc_m"
c02:234ff:/etc/getty tty02 sc_m
c03:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty03 sc_m
c04:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty04 sc_m
c05:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty05 sc_m
c06:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty06 sc_m
c07:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty07 sc_m
c08:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty08 sc_m
c09:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty09 sc_m
c10:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty10 sc_m
c11:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty11 sc_m
c12:234:respawn:/etc/getty tty12 sc_m

 

[dleboeuf]

If I'm not mistaken you have to delete the iosyscon.ctl file and reboot and all will be well.
Had this problem a long time ago.

 

[MonocleMike]

All it needed was rm /etc/ioctl.syscon from the single user session before going multi-user. Thank you Bela Lubkin for getting it right and to everyone else for taking the trouble to make their suggestions.