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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:37:43 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <marc.fournier@acadiau.ca>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System "crashed", serial console giving garbage...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812141236040.18505-100000@atelier.acadiau.ca>
In-Reply-To: <36753622.3B46F4E2@tdx.co.uk>

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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> 
> 
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > Morning...
> > 
> >         About 15min oago or so, my system stop'd working :(  If I connect
> > through the serial console, I see the following, after hitting return:
> > 
> > pagecorp> attach s0
> > Trying 209.47.145.10 ...
> > Connected - Escape character is '^]'.
> > $T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef$T0508:91e81ff0;05:c4cf3bfa;04:a0cf3bfa;#ef
> > 
> > Now, I could understand it crashing and just freezing, but issuign
> > garbage?
> > 
> > I have nothing else to debug with at this point, and have to wait for
> > someone to head downtown to reboot the machine, but figured I'd try to
> > start *somewhere* :(
> 
> I've seen similar to this before... Make sure your not trying to run remote
> GDB across the serial console? (without it's counterpart on the other end)...

	Altho I think this would be highly unlikely, given the method of
connecting the serial console I'm using...how would I check this, just in
case?	

> I can't understand your connect statement above? - If you connecting to the
> serial port how come you get "Trying xx.xx.xxx ..."? - I thought that was only
> from telnet?

I've got the serial port connected to a port on a portmaster, so when I
'attach', it initiates a telnet to the port itself...

Marc G. Fournier                                 marc.fournier@acadiau.ca
Systems Administrator, Acadia University

  "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer"


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