Re: console broken after Feb 21

On 2/22/2004 11:34 PM, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:
>>On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:
>>>Sometime between Feb 6 and Feb 21, there was a change that has broken the
>>>console on my athlon. init is acting like it can't open the console -- the
>>>forked process sleeps and respawns, but there are no messages. Single user
>>>and serial console have no effect and offer no additional output.
> 
> Compiling with INVARIANTS triggered this panic:
> 
> panic: make_dev() by driver ums on pre-existing device (maj=0, min=0,
> name=console)
> 
> Not sure why this is.

This might explain matters ("Re: CAUTION! device megapatch committed."):
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040223.053157.71126882.Tor.Egge
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-February/021966.html

These seem like they might be related to my untrained eye.  If not, I 
apologize.

Jon Noack