From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 06:57:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00E51065674 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:57:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17B88FC0C for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.20]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 66wV1f0040SCNGk516x0CA; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:57:00 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 66wz1f00A3LrwQ23V6x0Rj; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:57:00 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B8A79B423; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:56:58 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20100913065658.GA44306@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100912153058.GO12467@core.byshenk.net> <201009130637.o8D6bOlq096566@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009130637.o8D6bOlq096566@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@byshenk.net Subject: Re: Serial console problems with stable/8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:57:01 -0000 On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Greg Byshenk wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > On Friday I have updated a machine from 7.1 to stable/8. > > > It is connected to a serial console. With 7.1 everything > > > worked fine, but with stable/8 things seem to break. > > > > [...] > > > > > Here's my setup (which worked perfectly fine with 7.1): > > > > > > /boot.config: > > > -P > > > > > > /boot/loader.conf: > > > kernel_options="-P" > > > console="comconsole" > > > > > > /etc/ttys: > > > ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure > > > > Shouldn't this: ^^^ > > be 'on'...? > > Yes, of course it *was* on (which caused the symptoms > I described). As I explained, I had to turn it off so > I could at least use su(1) and shutdown(8) without > freezing the whole thing. Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output? If so, I'm not too surprised it doesn't work (re: -P flag). Can you try the following? 1) Removing kernel_options and console from loader.conf 2) Place "-P" in /boot.config instead If this doesn't change the behaviour, please replace -P and with -D -h and see if there's any improvement. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |