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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:01 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gone serial console on rpi3
Message-ID:  <D8394D28-9F5D-4A24-A3EF-1D7C6A7DE8D9@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20200220015158.GA55275@www.zefox.net>
References:  <20200220015158.GA55275@www.zefox.net>

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Hi,


> On 20 Feb 2020, at 01:51, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>=20
> Lately it seems the serial console on my Pi3 has gone
> missing. It's up and working for u-boot and loader,=20
> but once the kernel comes up the serial console falls
> silent. First noticed about two weeks ago.=20
>=20
> Backing down to an old kernel doesn't seem to help,
> as if something changed in userland. It appears that my
> userland was corrupted by a USB flash during make installworld,
> so lots of other things aren't working also... For now
> I'm trying to dig myself out of that hole.
>=20
> IIRC nothing special was needed to turn on the serial
> console, if that's changed please clue me in.

Well you do need to have the port turned on in /etc/ttys otherwise you =
won=E2=80=99t get a getty on it.

> On the plus side, single user mode now works with the
> USB keyboard, which is a great help.
>=20
> Thanks for reading,
>=20
> bob prohaska
>=20
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>=20

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Bob Bishop
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