[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#376406: bootlogd fails with message "bootlogd: cannot find console device 136:4 in /dev

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: bootlogd
Version: bootlogd 2.86 03-Jun-2004
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

bootlogd fails with the following message:
bootlogd: cannot find console device 136:4 in /dev

I verified and /dev/console is present:
crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2006-07-02 18:27 /dev/console

ttyzf is also present:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 175 2006-07-02 18:25 /dev/ttyzf

Following the bootlogd manpage, it says that if the console type is not
known to bootlogd, it fails.

My kernel is 2.6.17.1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (250, 'experimental'), (50, 'edgy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-skas3-v9-pre9
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)