From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 12:38:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2396B16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from panoramix.noc.ams-ix.net (panoramix.noc.ams-ix.net [193.194.136.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947C543F93 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arien.vijn@ams-ix.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panoramix.noc.ams-ix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DB29224; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:38:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from [192.168.0.254] (plumb.xs4all.nl [213.84.188.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by panoramix.noc.ams-ix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7751920D; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:38:50 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <324BF7B6-2375-11D8-A8C4-00039364C8C0@ams-ix.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Arien Vijn Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:38:46 +0100 To: Arien Vijn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console stops working at password prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:38:57 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:38:57 -0000 FYI, issue has been is solved. Created a user with a blank password so I would directly start a shell. This way I found out that there was a mismatch between terminal-settings :-/ Arien On 29-nov-03, at 14:42PM, Arien Vijn wrote: > Greetings, > > I do have an issue with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE (i386) and a serial > console. I can see the boot messages, console messages and a login > prompt. I can type a username, after that it shows the password prompt > and at that point things stop working as expected. > > After a while 'ps' shows that the login is the front-process (1059 in > the output below) for ttyd0 but it becomes idle regardless any console > input: > > # ps -ef | grep login > 483 v0 Is 0:00.02 login [pam] (login) > 1059 d0 I > When I kill the login process the 'getty process' is started as > front-process for ttyd0: > > # ps -ef | grep ttyd0 > 1085 d0 Ss+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 > > Again the login prompt appears in the terminal connected to the serial > console. > > ps also shows that the login process raised CPU scheduling priority > ('<'). Tests show that this process does that when waiting for a > password in a VGA-console. So I guess the login process is waiting for > a password but somehow it does not receive anything from the serial > port. Hense it becomes idle. > > However, console messages (like: "login: Nov 29 21:37:46 cyclone > login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1") are redirected fine to the serial > console. > > Does anyone have an idea what might go wrong here? > > Thanks in advance, Arien > >