Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:12:27 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Subject: Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease Message-ID: <20060925151227.GA29790@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <E1GRquq-00015P-Gd@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <45174A0C.50404@thebeastie.org> <E1GRquq-00015P-Gd@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:54:36PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for > > device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't > > login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. > > The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was > > booting up from the boot up messages on the screen, I couldn't remotely > > log into the server in fact it appears the machine didn't bring up the > > Ethernet device as I couldn't even ping it. > > As soon as I switched the ttyd0 back to 'off' and rebooted it I could > > ssh back into the server etc. > > I have a regular kernel and 1 jail and samba on this machine. > > I've been having this for a very long time, if the serial port does > not realy exist - i don't know the technical wording for this -, > > if the kernel detected the sio hardare, but it's not realy > wired, then it the kernel will hang when getty will try to open it. Per chance is the sio* device the kernel detects mapped to acpi0? :-) (Also, taking freebsd-ports off this portion of the discussion; the 2nd part of the OP's thread pertains to freebsd-ports, but not this portion). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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