Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console broken after Feb 21 Message-ID: <20040223100706.H20554@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040223102122.GA54433@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <20040222162619.D83938@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040223102122.GA54433@eddie.nitro.dk>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.02.22 16:30:14 -0800, Doug White wrote: > > Sometime between Feb 6 and Feb 21, there was a change that has broken the > > console on my athlon. init is acting like it can't open the console -- the > > forked process sleeps and respawns, but there are no messages. Single user > > and serial console have no effect and offer no additional output. > > I have seen a similar thing on my laptop. It just hangs around the time > it should start init and when I press ctrl-T it says "no controlling > terminal" (or something like that). I can then reboot with > ctrl-alt-delete. > > I traced it down to having dcons and dcons_crom in the kernel. Without > those my kernel boots fine. I haven't found the exact date it broke > yet, but it was before phk's "mega commits". tegge found a bug in phk's stuff that should fix these problems. I'll try it when I get home tonight, and see what it does to my work test boxes. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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