Serious issue with serial console in 5.4
Eirik Øverby
ltning at anduin.net
Thu Jul 21 12:19:49 GMT 2005
On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote:
>
>
>>> I've only seen the issue when logging out of a serial console
>>> session, and had previously hypothesized that it had to do with
>>> the simultaneous timing of a console message from syslog and the
>>> opening/closing of the console's tty due to logging out and getty
>>> restarting, resulting in a reference count improperly hitting zero.
>>>
>>
>> I did indeed make some changes to my syslog configuration after
>> getting the serials online. Your theory might not be entirely off.
>> Let me know if I should post my syslog.conf file or anything else
>> here or elsewhere...
>>
>
> Since you appear to be able to reliably reproduce the problem
> (whereas I was able to reproduce it only after several hours of
> quite active serial console work), it would be quite interesting to
> answer the following question:
>
> If you cause syslogd not to send any output to /dev/console, does
> the
> problem go away?
I'm afraid to say it doesn't....
/Eirik
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert N M Watson
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