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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2012 21:45:03 +0300
From:      Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: su problem
Message-ID:  <CAEW%2BogZ=nC6kGszy=krG8fbAno84AMxaPsrC5Fj1Z4zmtJMALg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FD37CF3.109@rdtc.ru>
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Hi,

%sysctl kern.console
kern.console: ttyv0,dcons,/dcons,ttyv0,uart,ucom,

%tail /var/log/messages
Jun  7 19:54:35 vps16 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
Jun  7 19:54:36 vps16 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: ugen0.2: <vendor 0x09da> at usbus0
Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: ukbd0: <vendor 0x09da USB Keyboard, class
0/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2> on usbus0
Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: kbd2 at ukbd0
Jun  7 20:18:05 vps16 kernel: uhid0: <vendor 0x09da USB Keyboard, class
0/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2> on usbus0
Jun  7 20:19:37 vps16 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: ugen0.2: <vendor 0x09da> at usbus0
(disconnected)
Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: ukbd0: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2 (disconnected=
)
Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: uhid0: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2 (disconnected=
)
%

the system was loaded with keyboard and disconnected later if i understand
the logs...

New ideas are appreciated, and thanks in advance,
Sami

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> wrote:

> 09.06.2012 19:47, Sami Halabi =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
> > %su -
> > Password:
> > load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 0.91r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
>
> Perpaps, your system had no keyboard attached at boot time;
> or for some other reason it booted with /dev/console being serial console
> instead of vidconsole. su locks trying to access serial console
> that is /dev/ttyd0 by default and has Carrier Detect flag enabled.
> Hence, it waits for CD on the first serial port (miserably and hopelessly=
).
>
> You can check if it's true with "sysctl kern.console" command.
> You could ask someone to boot the system with keyboard attached -
> no need to type anything, though. The system should detect it
> and assingn /dev/ttyv0 as /dev/console instead of /dev/ttyd0.
> And "su" won't lock.
>
> Eugene Grosbein
>



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Sami Halabi
Information Systems Engineer
NMS Projects Expert
FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert



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