From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org  Thu Mar  7 16:41:37 2019
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1])
 by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99769150801A
 for <freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>;
 Thu,  7 Mar 2019 16:41:37 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net)
Received: from www.zefox.net (www.zefox.net [50.1.20.27])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (Client CN "www.zefox.org", Issuer "www.zefox.org" (not verified))
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F4EF8E253;
 Thu,  7 Mar 2019 16:41:36 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net)
Received: from www.zefox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x27GfKKe046567
 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO);
 Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:41:21 -0800 (PST)
 (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net)
Received: (from fbsd@localhost)
 by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x27GfKSY046566;
 Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:41:19 -0800
From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
Cc: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console
Message-ID: <20190307164119.GA43724@www.zefox.net>
References: <20190307035427.GA42903@www.zefox.net>
 <30423F14-4038-4656-83FC-14DE0943B26B@dons.net.au>
 <20190307101011.GH2492@kib.kiev.ua>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20190307101011.GH2492@kib.kiev.ua>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)
X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 0F4EF8E253
X-Spamd-Bar: ------
Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org
X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.96 / 15.00];
 NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0];
 NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.96)[-0.959,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[];
 NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]
X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29
Precedence: list
List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." <freebsd-arm.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-arm>,
 <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm>,
 <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:41:37 -0000

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:10:11PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:08:07PM +1030, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
> > 
> > > On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console 
> > > is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying 
> > > the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't
> > > much fun. Is there a better option?  When the machine 
> > > boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap", 
> > > is something misconfigured?
> > 
> > /etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount /usr (read only is fine) then it should work.
> > 
> > ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted.
> > 
> > If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :)
> 
> There is /etc/termcap.small, and I remember our libcurses uses TERMCAP
> env variable to point to the termcap file.

It never occurred to me that /etc/termcap might actually live elsewhere.
That's almost certainly the problem. Would there be any drawback to 
simply moving the file back to /etc ?  

Thanks to everybody,

bob prohaska