From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 14:59:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DD616A400 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mail08b.verio.de (mail08b.verio.de [213.198.55.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8397013C458 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:59:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mx69.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (204.202.242.140) by mail08b.verio.de (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 4-064623189 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:59:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mmm808.verio.de [213.198.55.120] (EHLO mmm808.verio.de) by mx69.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (mxl_mta-1.3.8-10p4) with ESMTP id 98561764.13841.025.mx69.stngva01.us.mxservers.net; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 90607 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2007 14:59:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO peedub.jennejohn.org) (89.49.149.229) by with SMTP; 14 Jun 2007 14:59:47 -0000 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with SMTP id l5EExhNf014419; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:59:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:59:43 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Ivan Voras Message-Id: <20070614165943.7875c044.garyj@jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070614131437.b6affce3.garyj@jennejohn.org> Organization: DENX Softwre Engineering GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: [F=0.5026316898; heur=0.500(-26400); stat=0.502; spamtraq-heur=0.500(2007022501)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [213.198.55.120] X-SF-Loop: 1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:36:37 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing userland output with -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:59:53 -0000 On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:02:40 +0200 Ivan Voras 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