From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 12 8:23: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5807637B40A for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8E62514C2E; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:22:55 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bruce Evans Cc: Doug Barton , Subject: Re: Strike three, you're out References: <20011013001912.J49532-100000@delplex.bde.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Oct 2001 17:22:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20011013001912.J49532-100000@delplex.bde.org> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans writes: > On 12 Oct 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Remove UCONSOLE from kernel config. This has been discussed to death > > several times on the lists. > That only prevents non-root from triggering the bug. True. The only thing I know of that uses TIOCCONS apart from sysinstall is xconsole, but now that I think of it, xconsole does run as root if you use xdm. I guess the best way to avoid triggering this panic is to remove the UCONSOLE option from the kernel *and* comment out the xconsole line from /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message