From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 13 11:55:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from courriel.etsmtl.ca (courriel.etsmtl.ca [142.137.3.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784DB37B423 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:54:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dactyl (ordi61.info.etsmtl.ca [142.137.4.61]) by courriel.etsmtl.ca with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id ZG8DBQMK; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:54:34 -0500 From: "Normand Leclerc" To: Subject: RE: Serial console drops dead Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:54:29 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c1b4c8$3f816cb0$3d04898e@dactyl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20020213150404.GK23566@cicely8.cicely.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > You usually get a BREAK condition if the console server is turned off. > Most developers have DDB with BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER compiled in and don't > power off the console terminal. > I wouldn't be surprised if noone ever tested your situation. What can I do to escape from this? Remake a cable with DCD and DTR always on? I wouldn't trust myself playing around in the kernel... > init q only rereads /etc/ttys but doesn't change console situation. I was changing the on to off then init q then off to on... Tried kills as well... Anyway. Normand Leclerc leclercn@videotron.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message