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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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