console broken after Feb 21

[Doug White]

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.

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