On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:22:35 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: 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 <[email protected]> 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. *** 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.
