Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:56:58 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@byshenk.net Subject: Re: Serial console problems with stable/8 Message-ID: <20100913065658.GA44306@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <201009130637.o8D6bOlq096566@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20100912153058.GO12467@core.byshenk.net> <201009130637.o8D6bOlq096566@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > On Friday I have updated a machine from 7.1 to stable/8. > > > It is connected to a serial console. With 7.1 everything > > > worked fine, but with stable/8 things seem to break. > > > > [...] > > > > > Here's my setup (which worked perfectly fine with 7.1): > > > > > > /boot.config: > > > -P > > > > > > /boot/loader.conf: > > > kernel_options="-P" > > > console="comconsole" > > > > > > /etc/ttys: > > > ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure > > > > Shouldn't this: ^^^ > > be 'on'...? > > Yes, of course it *was* on (which caused the symptoms > I described). As I explained, I had to turn it off so > I could at least use su(1) and shutdown(8) without > freezing the whole thing. Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output? If so, I'm not too surprised it doesn't work (re: -P flag). Can you try the following? 1) Removing kernel_options and console from loader.conf 2) Place "-P" in /boot.config instead If this doesn't change the behaviour, please replace -P and with -D -h and see if there's any improvement. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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