From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 06:10:26 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 9D61E16A415 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FBE43D5E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:10:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1GS69A-00044k-Nz; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:24 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Michael Vince In-reply-to: <45187F1D.4070500@thebeastie.org> References: <45174A0C.50404@thebeastie.org> <45187F1D.4070500@thebeastie.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Vince message dated "Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:15:09 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:24 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@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 06:10:26 -0000 [...] > > >>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. > next time, just boot single user, do a fsck / then mount -u / at which point you will be able to fix /etc/ttys or any other screwup. danny