syscons not running?

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Tue Mar 7 00:46:38 UTC 2006


Milan Obuch wrote:
> Hi,
> I am testing 7.0-CURRENT on my TabletPC TC1000. For some time I am getting 
> $SUBJECT messages when booting - just after 'Starting devd.' line. Next comes 
> 'Configuring syscons: blanktime.' line. So question is - what does $SUBJECT 
> line mean? Is it error? Serious? Harmless? Does not makes much sense to me.
> By the way, today I do full system rebuild exactly as described 
> in /usr/src/Makefile from sources cvsupped today morning.

you did not give us more details about your setup. i assume that you are 
   booting your system with the usb keyboard attached.

imo, 'syscons not running?' message is harmless. it is caused by

/etc/rc.syscons restart

part of the ukbd(4) attach 'action' in /etc/devd.conf.

thanks,
max


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