probs on 6.2-prerelease
Michael Vince
mv at thebeastie.org
Tue Sep 26 17:46:34 PDT 2006
Danny Braniss wrote:
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>>>>Hey all,
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>This might just be a ports thing but on another 6.2 server I setup a
>>>>jailed mail server with courier imap and I have noticed that it fails to
>>>>build the courier-imap port with FAM support.
>>>>I tried also installing the gamin FAM alternative which builds ok but I
>>>>get signal 11 when I try to login to the imap server.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone else have these problems?
>>>>
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>danny
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>>OK good then its not just me, yes I haven't checked if the serial port
>>is actually enabled in the bios, still I think its quite ordinary to
>>have a machine basically fully hang up just because theres no active
>>serial port. With no network or serial (unless you can enable/find it
>>hardware side) I had to boot from the Freebsd install cdrom in fix it
>>mode and mount the installed setup and revert the tty change.
>>
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>next time, just boot single user, do a
> fsck /
>then
> mount -u /
>at which point you will be able to fix /etc/ttys
>or any other screwup.
>
> danny
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Yeah for some reason I couldn't do that, I can't even remember all the
reasons now but the main reason is because I have a USB keyboard, for
some reason I can use the USB keyboard in the BIOS but as soon as the
boot loader starts with the 10sec menu I loose all control of the keyboard.
Booting into fixit mode from the CDROM loads the USB drivers (as well as
not hanging up the OS anywhere) so I could mount the filesystem and fix it.
Mike
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