From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 10:08:07 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 CAB5E16A4CE; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E5243D1F; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B45CB72DD4; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4EE72DD2; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Simon L. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20040223102122.GA54433@eddie.nitro.dk> Message-ID: <20040223100706.H20554@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040222162619.D83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040223102122.GA54433@eddie.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 18:08:07 -0000 On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.02.22 16:30:14 -0800, 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. > > I have seen a similar thing on my laptop. It just hangs around the time > it should start init and when I press ctrl-T it says "no controlling > terminal" (or something like that). I can then reboot with > ctrl-alt-delete. > > I traced it down to having dcons and dcons_crom in the kernel. Without > those my kernel boots fine. I haven't found the exact date it broke > yet, but it was before phk's "mega commits". tegge found a bug in phk's stuff that should fix these problems. I'll try it when I get home tonight, and see what it does to my work test boxes. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org