From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 08:38:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09569 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garlic.acadiau.ca (garlic.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09562 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@acadiau.ca) Received: from atelier.acadiau.ca (atelier.acadiau.ca [131.162.138.103]) by garlic.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA25185; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:38:02 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:37:43 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Karl Pielorz cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System "crashed", serial console giving garbage... In-Reply-To: <36753622.3B46F4E2@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Morning... > > > > About 15min oago or so, my system stop'd working :( If I connect > > through the serial console, I see the following, after hitting return: > > > > pagecorp> attach s0 > > Trying 209.47.145.10 ... > > Connected - Escape character is '^]'. > > $T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef > > > > Now, I could understand it crashing and just freezing, but issuign > > garbage? > > > > I have nothing else to debug with at this point, and have to wait for > > someone to head downtown to reboot the machine, but figured I'd try to > > start *somewhere* :( > > I've seen similar to this before... Make sure your not trying to run remote > GDB across the serial console? (without it's counterpart on the other end)... Altho I think this would be highly unlikely, given the method of connecting the serial console I'm using...how would I check this, just in case? > I can't understand your connect statement above? - If you connecting to the > serial port how come you get "Trying xx.xx.xxx ..."? - I thought that was only > from telnet? I've got the serial port connected to a port on a portmaster, so when I 'attach', it initiates a telnet to the port itself... Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca Systems Administrator, Acadia University "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message