John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:55:27 am Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I think the boot.config stuff might be a red herring. > > The console breaks (i.e. freezes) as soon as I try to run > > a getty process on it -- That seems to indicate that getty > > does *something* to the console device which causes the > > problem. The wchan "ttydcd" seems to indicate is has > > something to do with carrier detection or flow control. > > This points to the uart driver as the culprit which > > replaced sio. > > Well, /dev/ttyXX have always waited for carrier detect, whereas > /dev/cuaXX (the call-out devices) have not.
Well, before the update I had ttyd0 in /etc/ttys (this is the default in FreeBSD 7.x), so it should have waited for carrier detect, too. > That was so that you could hook a modem up to a serial port and getty > would not return from open(2) and print a login banner until someone > dialed the modem and connected. I think Jeremy has already given you > some good things to try (such as 3wire.9600) to debug this instead. Yes, I will try that ... But with the 3wire entry I won't have any flow control at all, so output can be lost, right? Doesn't sound like a good solution. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
