From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 11:25:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08745 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles113.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08740 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06756; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810171827.LAA06756@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Karl Pielorz cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console - broken? (src as of 10/16 @ 16:43) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:00:54 BST." <362878E6.3EE89054@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:27:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I'm running a serial console for ddb etc. - This used to work great, but with > recent builds every time the system panic's, I get the usual details about the > panic, but it ends with: > > " > current process = Idle > interrupt mask = bio <- SMP: XXX > $T0b08:079713f0;05:784b80ff;04:644b80ff;#b4 > " > > Any key presses on the serial console result in > "04:644b80ff;#b4$T0b08:079713f0;" being displayed... > > 'Ah, serial port speed I thought', erm, nope - double checking /etc/make.conf > etc. it's set to 57600... Trying different speeds while it's in this state > doesn't net anything better (I get a lot of 'xxx's at lower speeds, which are > normal symptomatic of wrong serial speed). You appear to be booting with the '-g' flag, as what you're seeing looks like the gdb-remote protocol. The simple answer is "don't". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message