Console wierdness under 3.5

[Ed Friedman]

In trying to upgrade our operating from Sun OS 3.4 to 3.5, I have
encountered the following strange problem.  On most of our clients,
logging in via the console is impossible because whatever user name
(including root) you give, after hitting the carriage return no password
is asked for, but instead a new login prompt is generated.  When logging
on remotely, no problems are seen at all and normal password procedures
are followed.  A further clue is after four or five attempts to login at
the console, a message appears saying something like: init /dev/console
getty sleeping

Anyone have a clue as to what is going on here?

Ed Friedman

ed at zaphod.uchicago.edu
friedman at uchicago.bitnet