probs on 6.2-prerelease

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:54:36PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for 
> > device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't 
> > login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login.
> > The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was 
> > booting up from the boot up messages on the screen, I couldn't remotely 
> > log into the server in fact it appears the machine didn't bring up the 
> > Ethernet device as I couldn't even ping it.
> > As soon as I switched the ttyd0 back to 'off' and rebooted it I could 
> > ssh back into the server etc.
> > I have a regular kernel and 1 jail and samba on this machine.
> 
> I've been having this for a very long time, if the serial port does
> not realy exist - i don't know the technical wording for this -,
> 
> if the kernel detected the sio hardare, but it's not realy
> wired, then it the kernel will hang when getty will try to open it.

Per chance is the sio* device the kernel detects mapped to acpi0?  :-)

(Also, taking freebsd-ports off this portion of the discussion; the
2nd part of the OP's thread pertains to freebsd-ports, but not this
portion).

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