From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 22:29:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC9416A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2439C43D1D for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from DeepCore.dk (sos.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.130]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1N6S50G043343; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:28:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <40399DB1.4010003@DeepCore.dk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:29:05 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040126 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <20040222162619.D83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040222171850.B83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040222171850.B83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.3 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:05:05 -0800 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console broken after Feb 21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:29:11 -0000 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