Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:21:47 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Virtual consoles stopped working Message-ID: <CAEC73927Ej9ZA00F4JL3i3Meu1kd-N6dm=a7t4vyTE0KA253DA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote: >> From my older thread, "installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails" >> Changing this issue to its own thread. > [snip] >> After quite a few rebuilds from scratch, I now have a 12-STABLE system >> on which synth runs without crashing except that it finds that its >> Flavors tree has circular dependencies. >> > [UPDATE] My machine seems to be stuck on just one virtual console. I > tried rebooting with GENERIC and the issue persists. This DID occur > first after completing a synth run in which circular dependencies were > discovered, but I am unclear whether synth _caused_ something to > change. Looking through dmesg now. > I see that my setting kern.maxswzone=0 did not work. I have altered it to 17200000. Still no joy on the vconsoles. I also tried reinstalling the GENERIC kernel as default and that did not work. Since I am using this mule as a dev system for a server-based application, I have no WM or GUI activated. I really would like to have the virtual consoles back, and I will gladly learn from what I did to mess it up. :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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