Thanks much. A different approach to some others.
I'll file them all because I suspect that one method will suit one problem better than others. On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:48:05 +0100, Adriaan wrote: >From the OpenBSD FAQ: >At the boot loader prompt, enter > boot> *set tty com0* > This will tell OpenBSD to use the first serial port (often called COM1 or >COMA in PC documentation) as a serial console. The default baud rate is >9600. >You set the speed higher by first typing "stty com0 19200" This is >documented in the boot.conf man page. >On your workstation you can use tip(1) as terminal emulator. You can easily >record the session to file by creating a ".tiprc" file: >beautify >record='LOGS/serial-log.txt' >script >verbose >Create the LOGS directory, add yourself to the dialer group. With something >like"tip -v -19200 tty00" you can then start tip. >If you have an USB->Serial converter you need to use ttyU0 as mentioned in >ucom(4) >On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Rod Whitworth <glis...@witworx.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:16:52 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 16:05, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> >> I tried 5.5 - crashes there too. >> >> >> >> 5.4 and earlier work well. >> >> >> >> Clues? I love these low power skinny boxes in my rack and I'm betting >> that >> >> the problem >> >> exists in all the ones I have, but I cannot take the others down until I >> >> have one to swap in. >> >> >> >> >1. connect a serial cable or something to record output. >> >> I like the idea of getting chars ready to print but how do I get the data >> going to the rs232 >> port that is on all of these boxes (luckily!) ? I missed the class that >> taught that trick. 8-) >> >> >> >> >> >2. get a video camera. smartphone should be good enough. >> >> >3. brute force. build kernels from source from 5.4 onwards. the good >> >news is this will only take about seven kernels to find the offending >> >commit; the bad news is building old snapshot ramdisk kernels is quite >> >a pain. >> >> >> >> *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. >> Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is >> tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled >> to reply off list. Thankyou. >> >> Rod/ >> --- >> This life is not the real thing. >> It is not even in Beta. >> If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
