Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:29:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@quit.42.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/3299: /dev/console hangs Message-ID: <199704151829.UAA14757@quit.42.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199704151830.LAA27783@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3299 >Category: kern >Synopsis: /dev/console hangs >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 15 11:30:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Stefan `Sec` Zehl >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386 >Environment: 2.2.1-RELEASE Box with no keyboard and monitor, 2.2-STABLE kernel >Description: If you boot with a kernel who probes for a keyboard, and have no keyboard attached it routes /dev/console to /dev/cuaa0 - if the terminal is unplugged writes to /dev/console will hang. >How-To-Repeat: Boot Box without keyboard but with terminal on cuaa0, unplug terminal and wait (syslog logs very much to /dev/console as default) syslogd will stop logging soon and all output to /dev/console will hang >Fix: comment out lines concerning /dev/console in syslog.conf - however i feel the main problem is, that writes to console should not hang in this case, 2.1.0R (which i hab before) didn't have this problem. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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