Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 01:40:58 -0700 From: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, bde@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New syscons bugs: shutdown -r doesn't execute rc.d sequence and others Message-ID: <6E572F7D-8DA3-4801-B370-B7B63C664760@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170329190919.C26218@besplex.bde.org> References: <7d5bbbf0-6908-185c-2ee0-29e0a4f60591@freebsd.org> <D9EAB41D-CE19-4225-8868-F4AFE461F903@gmail.com> <5587c798-d36c-9074-1060-30e206db5571@freebsd.org> <69af07a7-ec8f-9b7f-8b93-9ba148f30fec@freebsd.org> <8C24D1BA-1607-4C19-BA38-39256E82C7AF@gmail.com> <51045bee-a626-efb3-4b1e-0c3d36abb1ab@freebsd.org> <20170329132927.U882@besplex.bde.org> <20170329150903.T1156@besplex.bde.org> <8078CD32-2DFB-4296-BD92-29627A1B4559@gmail.com> <20170329190919.C26218@besplex.bde.org>
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--Apple-Mail=_22CFF767-91DA-471A-9F92-DC70CBD6B99B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Mar 29, 2017, at 01:26, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Ngie Cooper wrote: >=20 >>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 21:40, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Bruce Evans wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Andrey Chernov wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>> Moreover, I can't enter KDB via Ctrl-Alt-ESC in the syscons only = mode >>>>> anymore - nothing happens. In the vt mode I can, but can't exit = via "c" >>>>> properly, all chars typed after "c" produce beep unless I switch = to >>>>> another screen and back. >>>>> All it means that syscons becomes very broken now by itself and = even >>>>> damages the kernel operations. >=20 > I found a bug in screen resizing (the console context doesn't get = resized). > This doesn't cause any keyboard problems. >=20 >>>> ... >>>> But I suspect it is a usb keyboard problem. Syscons now does = almost >>>> correct locking for the screen, but not for the keyboard, and the = usb >>>> keyboard is especially fragile, especially in ddb mode. Console = input >>>> is not used in normal operation except for checking for characters = on >>>> reboot. >>>>=20 >>>> Try using vt with syscons unconfigured. Syscons shouldn't be used = when >>>> vt is selected, but unconfigure it to be sure. vt has different = bugs >>>> using the usb keyboard. I haven't tested usb keyboards recently. >>>=20 >>> ... >>> I tested usb keyboards again. They sometimes work, much the same as >>> a few months ago after some fixes: >>> ... >>>=20 >>> The above testing is with a usb keyboard, no ps/2 keyboard, and no = kbdmux. >>> Other combinations and dynamic switching move the bugs around, and a >>> serial console is needed to recover in cases where the bugs prevent = any >>> keyboard input. >>=20 >> I filed a bug a few years ago about USB keyboards and usability in = ddb. If you increase the timeout so the USB hubs have enough time to = probe/attach, they will work. >=20 > Is that for user mode or earlier? ukb has some other fixes for ddb = now, but > of course it can't work before it finds the device. >=20 > I recently found that usb boot drives sometimes don't have enough time = to > probe/attach before they are used in mountroot, and the mount -a = prompt > does locking that doesn't allow them enough time if they are not ready > before it. The usb maintainers already know about this. Ah, I misremembered my filing the bug =E2=80=94 someone else did it: = https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D133989 (it happens = at mountroot, for example, because of probing order being what it is). -Ngie --Apple-Mail=_22CFF767-91DA-471A-9F92-DC70CBD6B99B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJY23MbAAoJEPWDqSZpMIYVH5sP/0RfNzM6K+QYb60C94VOT9YF Yeo9hi5K5+G4gY2F2/CMhXQSgUby7xKYW+qXtmsJ9iJ+2mCQjQ5f5lMJwSuVqhXm EH2KZ25B6dd1z2QyB2DClDqkMOS4M0daWjEyxjfSy4K43Y75M6ODw3JhlGKH5kUF vo+iEQpOQXwFfYRU8SZJ7zvETPVf64618Ik/eI+7Hz2cIIzh6/y6sYFtxpvjJfvQ I7gzdxaxFHNsa48rEzjznQnC+EYYuSSwwmUVlbJ+NMrMJZ8f0TX29mUKmH90iQDl InNrCE4RGgUCdJANTzpIAeh+zqDpRkI57SdjHLD/JtQHo06KCAYpWXjxYOyp6A29 xM8i56mx1N9sYzQHviCcizwQB/nSJlXWlFZaKQJmKAnZAKPQhiyXeE6ylTg94qjH kC2MwIMb6x+gJfMIte73iHf+Gl8jyOqE/TOsat5yyhe2DkvHxaZ489vFtvXwLmCu S6NjsuqAIqKJXHzJI4wbXXX/TsMt7S2wLf664uzJuWXisWwgii1KGs6D3U2c68pO OBv8p2cmI2vpVnZYb2TTuZ6/PkSiIDNuzDkZKyRd04FTUX6pzhKqtTBLQYHYLpwx 1l3rpgSXjZ+kEqrQNx3L2toel7n7zaadzhuCCimdmmRpIcJb2CoY70Gu0zoT000p BklvdizL1V/w79XvArkr =9CoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_22CFF767-91DA-471A-9F92-DC70CBD6B99B--
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