Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:30:46 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: console shows =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0?= on startup soon after starting sshd & cron Message-ID: <20190913063046.85db4c25.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <707e3563-cc8e-487e-b4b5-069d78a2b984@www.fastmail.com> References: <c29f4edd-1e74-4701-ad77-9bad6b89ed37@www.fastmail.com> <707e3563-cc8e-487e-b4b5-069d78a2b984@www.fastmail.com>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:16:19 +0000, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, at 13:07, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > > Anybody seen this before? Over ipmi, soon after ssh and other daemons=20 > > start, with > > normal text output, text is garbled: > >=20 > > Mounting late filesystems:. > > Starting sendmail_submit. > > Configuring vt: blanktime. > > Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. > > Starting sshd. > > Starting cron. > > Starting=20 > > backgro=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0= =E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0= =E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0= =E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0=E0 > >=20 > > is displayed on the console. > >=20 > > Immediately after shutting the system down, normal text resumes. I'm=20 > > guessing it > > is some misconfiguration of some lconsole or terminal settings, but I=20 > > have no idea > > what that might be? > >=20 > > A+ > > Dave >=20 > I'm no tty* expert but after vacation, I realised /etc/ttys has been modi= fied. >=20 > diff /etc/ttys: >=20 > @@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 o= ff secure > ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > # Serial terminals > -ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" dialup on secure > -ttyu1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" dialup on secure > -ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > -ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > +# The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. > +# NB these are required for IPMI SoL to function after kernel loads > +ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure > +ttyu1 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure > +ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure > +ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure >=20 > I have no idea why somebody would have set these differently for 10.x > vs 12.0R but maybe=20 > this will help future users. What FreeBSD version is this? For some time now, the type for the virtual consoles is "xterm", not "cons25" or "cons25l1". Example: ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm onifexists secure Maybe this file has somehow been excluded from an upgrade process? I don't have access to a 10.x system at the moment, but I think this change happened somewhere in 10.x due to sc -> vt... > I did try editing this manually and then `pkill -HUP 1` in case that > fixed it interactively, > but no such luck, a reboot was required. And it now works? With that (nondefault) /etc/ttys file? --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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