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From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@quit.42.org>
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Subject: kern/3299: /dev/console hangs
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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: