[Follow up] xconsole/xterm -C, syslog, and geli

[Claude Buisson]

The problem is not specific to geli/geom_eli: I "see" the same empty lines from
the USB subsystem, when pluging/unpluging a disk

CBu

P.S. Apologies to Ed Schouten for the bad spelling of his name !

On 08/07/2011 12:27, Claude Buisson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Starting somewhere with 8-CURRENT (Ed Shouten work on the tty subsytem) xconsole
> and xterm -C cannot grab the console, without hacks. For example see:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022116.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-February/023109.html
>
> Even with some hacking (in my case patching mac_stub.c) syslog (non kernel)
> entries are not displayed (they remain on ttyv0).
>
> A new point (for me) is that (kernel) messages from geli/geom_eli, like:
>
> Aug  7 10:41:04 zorglub kernel: cryptosoft0:<software crypto>  on motherboard
> Aug  7 10:41:16 zorglub kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada0p9.eli created.
> Aug  7 10:41:16 zorglub kernel: GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
> Aug  7 10:41:16 zorglub kernel: GEOM_ELI:  Integrity: HMAC/SHA256
> Aug  7 10:41:16 zorglub kernel: GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: software
>
> appears only as _empty_ lines on xconsole.
>
> This is on a 9-CURRENT system amd64 SMP (2011/07/24 svn r224294).
>
> Any hint to solve this problem ?
>
> Thx
>
> CBu