From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 20 18:10:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E22037B422; Sun, 20 May 2001 18:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4L1ArH03338; Sun, 20 May 2001 20:10:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:10:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Gregory Sutter Cc: yokota@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons problem Message-ID: <20010520201053.A16627@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010520150721.D61994@klapaucius.zer0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <20010520150721.D61994@klapaucius.zer0.org>; from "Gregory Sutter" on Sun May 20 15:07:22 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 20), Gregory Sutter said: > I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a > certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that you > can fix the bug. My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although the > problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STABLE. I do not have a > -CURRENT box. > > FreeBSD trurl.zer0.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #6: Wed May 16 17:44:58 PDT 2001 gsutter@trurl.zer0.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN i386 > > Here is a diff between a working kernel configuration file (GEN) and > a non-working one (GEN.not): > > trurl gsutter /sys/i386/conf $diff -u -0 GEN.not GEN > --- GEN.not Wed May 16 17:12:42 2001 > +++ GEN Wed May 16 17:49:06 2001 > @@ -61 +61 @@ > -options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 > +#options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 That's 8000 lines; 320 25-line screens, totaling 640000 bytes. Do you rally want a history that large? > I have not tested with other SC_HISTORY_SIZE values. > > When I boot with a kernel compiled with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 > option, I observe the following: > > 1. No gettys are spawned. If I ssh in, I can manually start > gettys. Does anything get logged in /var/log ? If init can't spawn a getty, it usually logs it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message