From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 01:15:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F99016A407; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:15:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F66343D4C; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028A54CDCA; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beaste5.jumbuck.com (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937334CDC4; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:16:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beaste5.jumbuck.com (beast5 [192.168.46.105]) by beaste5.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C478620A4E6D; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:15:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.46.102] (unknown [192.168.46.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beaste5.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A514D20A4E57; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:15:10 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <45187F1D.4070500@thebeastie.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:15:09 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Braniss References: <45174A0C.50404@thebeastie.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:15:13 -0000 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. Mike