Re: console broken after Feb 21

From: Søren Schmidt <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:29:05 +0100
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.
> 
> 
> More on this.
> 
> Tweaking init to log to /dev/cuaa0, and converting vsyslog() calls into
> vfprintf(), finds that things are failing due to this:
> 
> can't open /dev/console: No such file or directory
> 
> I see that the 'devfs' global variable isn't initialized, so I'm going to
> initialize that.  I'll also see if my on-disk /dev is broken or something,
> although I'm not sure how easy it is to fix.

I'm seeing this problem as well on most of the machines I have on 
-current. Its caused by phk's MEGA commit as a kernel form just before 
works fine, No idea to the cause though...

-- 
-S?ren
Received on Sun Feb 22 2004 - 21:29:10 UTC

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