Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:59:43 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing userland output with -current Message-ID: <20070614165943.7875c044.garyj@jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <f4re9m$htt$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20070614131437.b6affce3.garyj@jennejohn.org> <f4re9m$htt$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:02:40 +0200 Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > The symptom is that _all_ userland output disappears, which makes it > > rather difficult to do anything. I'm forced to reboot the box until > > the boot output isn't trashed. > > > > If I break into ddb then all the output becomes visible, but leaving > > ddb then results in no userland output appearing again. > > Do you use vidcontrol to set different video mode? > no > How exactly does "output disappear"? Does the screen go blank? Does > the console just stop outputting characters? > no output on the console except for... > Why do you say "userland output"? Do kernel messages appear? (You can > check this by e.g. inserting a USB memory stick in the machine). > kernel messages. That means, no messages from init, from rc.d scripts, no login prompt. As I wrote, this problem only appears when kernel boot messages are garbled. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde
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