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). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
