Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:15:09 +1000 From: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease Message-ID: <45187F1D.4070500@thebeastie.org> 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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Danny Braniss wrote: >>Hey all, >> >>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. >> >>This might just be a ports thing but on another 6.2 server I setup a >>jailed mail server with courier imap and I have noticed that it fails to >>build the courier-imap port with FAM support. >>I tried also installing the gamin FAM alternative which builds ok but I >>get signal 11 when I try to login to the imap server. >> >>Does anyone else have these problems? >> >> >> > >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. > >danny > > OK good then its not just me, yes I haven't checked if the serial port is actually enabled in the bios, still I think its quite ordinary to have a machine basically fully hang up just because theres no active serial port. With no network or serial (unless you can enable/find it hardware side) I had to boot from the Freebsd install cdrom in fix it mode and mount the installed setup and revert the tty change. Mikehome | help
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