From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 16 10:28:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22521 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22516 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA07811; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 19:29:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199512161829.TAA07811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: lost console To: sos@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 19:29:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512161758.SAA09550@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Dec 16, 95 06:58:29 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In reply to Christoph P. Kukulies who wrote: > > > > I read about lost console a couple of days ago but I didn't > > read very deep, actually I skipped. > > Now it seems to have caught me: > > On a -current (14 days old) running PCVT I suddenly > > lost the capability of vt switching (xterms and X still > > running processes). I cannot switch to other consoles > > and cannot grab the X server again. > > AHaaa, and I thought I had a syscons bug !! > It seems we should look for something more generic then.... > > > What is the cause for this? > > Currently I'm clueless, but I've seen it a couple of times here too > I'm not running X that much since the Xaccel server still is unusable > on my Diamond viper pro video :( :( And I'm running (on this machine) the Xaccel server with a JPN Crystalspeed Mach8. /etc/ttys: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure # Serial terminals ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" dialup on I don't know yet how to repeat the behaviour but it may have happened during console switching. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > So much code to hack -- so little time. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de