Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi, I reported this before, but I am very surprised that it is still the case: (This is from the last time it happened; this time the box rebooted and cleared the serial console

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Hans Lambermont
Eirik ?verby wrote: ... However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? No, I recently installed 3 5.4-R production machines that do not have video cards,

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik verby wrote: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x1c fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0620b5f stack pointer =

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: The above panic will show up occasionally when logging out from a serial console (i.e. ctrl-D, logout, exit, whatever). This is EXTREMELY BAD, as it will crash an otherwise perfectly healthy box at random - and renders the serial console useless.

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: The above panic will show up occasionally when logging out from a serial console (i.e. ctrl-D, logout, exit, whatever). This is EXTREMELY BAD, as it will crash an otherwise perfectly healthy box

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: I've only seen the issue when logging out of a serial console session, and had previously hypothesized that it had to do with the simultaneous timing of a console message from syslog and the opening/closing of the console's tty due to logging out and

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: I've only seen the issue when logging out of a serial console session, and had previously hypothesized that it had to do with the simultaneous timing of a console message from syslog and the

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:19:23PM +0200, Eirik verby wrote: If you cause syslogd not to send any output to /dev/console, does the problem go away? I'm afraid to say it doesn't Please, could you add: options DDB #Enable the kernel debugger options DDB_NUMSYM

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: You might have to wait until 6.0-R since fixing it seems to require infrastructure changes that cannot easily be backported to 5.x. With all due respect - if this is (and I'm assuming it is, because it happens on all the

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 21, 2005, at 4:56 AM, Eirik Øverby wrote: However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? no, there are plenty of us out here... i have two

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi, I reported this before, but I am very surprised that it is still the case: (This is from the last time it happened; this time the box rebooted and cleared the serial console before I had time to cut/paste it. Fatal

Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-18 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, I reported this before, but I am very surprised that it is still the case: (This is from the last time it happened; this time the box rebooted and cleared the serial console before I had time to cut/paste it. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 00 fault