Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:46:28 +1000 From: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease Message-ID: <4519C9E4.3070704@thebeastie.org> In-Reply-To: <E1GS69A-00044k-Nz@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <45174A0C.50404@thebeastie.org> <E1GRquq-00015P-Gd@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <45187F1D.4070500@thebeastie.org> <E1GS69A-00044k-Nz@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss wrote: >[...] > > >>>>Hey all, >>>> >>>>I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for >>>>device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't >>>>login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. >>>>The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was >>>>booting up from the boot up messages on the screen, I couldn't remotely >>>>log into the server in fact it appears the machine didn't bring up the >>>>Ethernet device as I couldn't even ping it. >>>>As soon as I switched the ttyd0 back to 'off' and rebooted it I could >>>>ssh back into the server etc. >>>>I have a regular kernel and 1 jail and samba on this machine. >>>> >>>>This might just be a ports thing but on another 6.2 server I setup a >>>>jailed mail server with courier imap and I have noticed that it fails to >>>>build the courier-imap port with FAM support. >>>>I tried also installing the gamin FAM alternative which builds ok but I >>>>get signal 11 when I try to login to the imap server. >>>> >>>>Does anyone else have these problems? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I've been having this for a very long time, if the serial port does >>>not realy exist - i don't know the technical wording for this -, >>> >>>if the kernel detected the sio hardare, but it's not realy >>>wired, then it the kernel will hang when getty will try to open it. >>> >>>danny >>> >>> >>> >>> >>OK good then its not just me, yes I haven't checked if the serial port >>is actually enabled in the bios, still I think its quite ordinary to >>have a machine basically fully hang up just because theres no active >>serial port. With no network or serial (unless you can enable/find it >>hardware side) I had to boot from the Freebsd install cdrom in fix it >>mode and mount the installed setup and revert the tty change. >> >> >> > >next time, just boot single user, do a > fsck / >then > mount -u / >at which point you will be able to fix /etc/ttys >or any other screwup. > > danny > > > Yeah for some reason I couldn't do that, I can't even remember all the reasons now but the main reason is because I have a USB keyboard, for some reason I can use the USB keyboard in the BIOS but as soon as the boot loader starts with the 10sec menu I loose all control of the keyboard. Booting into fixit mode from the CDROM loads the USB drivers (as well as not hanging up the OS anywhere) so I could mount the filesystem and fix it. Mike
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