Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:29:05 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console broken after Feb 21 Message-ID: <40399DB1.4010003@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040222171850.B83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040222162619.D83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040222171850.B83938@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > > >>Sometime between Feb 6 and Feb 21, there was a change that has broken the >>console on my athlon. init is acting like it can't open the console -- the >>forked process sleeps and respawns, but there are no messages. Single user >>and serial console have no effect and offer no additional output. > > > More on this. > > Tweaking init to log to /dev/cuaa0, and converting vsyslog() calls into > vfprintf(), finds that things are failing due to this: > > can't open /dev/console: No such file or directory > > I see that the 'devfs' global variable isn't initialized, so I'm going to > initialize that. I'll also see if my on-disk /dev is broken or something, > although I'm not sure how easy it is to fix. I'm seeing this problem as well on most of the machines I have on -current. Its caused by phk's MEGA commit as a kernel form just before works fine, No idea to the cause though... -- -S?ren
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