for completeness.. a downgrade to Raspbian Wheezy fixed the issues. Seems there is an incompatibility between Gert's set up software and Jessie for now.

Further to this... I think that this is related to there being no inittab in the latest version of Raspbian (versus Pi 2). So... Is there a revision to the GertBot software for it to work on the Jessie Build of Raspbian.

Hi I am trying to get the Gertbot GUI running on a Raspberry Pi 2 and first I need to enable the UART. Unfortunately I get the following: $ sudo ./enable_uart cfr Error checking /boot/cmdline.txt Looks like /etc/inittab needs fixing I don't think that there is an inittab file on a Raspberry Pi 2 so ...