Re: Console freeze but still alive

From: Skip Ford <skip.ford_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:00:02 -0500
Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <200502090737.36020.syjef_at_mdanderson.org>, Jonathan Fosburgh writes:
> >I'm running -current as of yesterday and having the same problem.  X is 
> >working fine for me, I just can't make use of any of /dev/ttyv*.  WHen I sh>ut 
> >the system down I do notice that all of the output suddenly appears and I c>an 
> >watch the shutdown generally from about the point disks start to sync. This> 
> >is on an old HP Kayak workstation.
> 
> FYI, I saw something similar once when I was testing my recent
> callout changes, but I haven't seen it happen since. If the problem
> did just appear around Sunday/Monday then I guess it could be
> related...

Yes, reverting your callout changes fixes the problem for me.

In my case, with your changes the console worked fine unless I
started X.  When switching from or exiting X, the screen would
stay blank.  The shell still works at that point, I just couldn't
see it.

Changing video modes with vidcontrol didn't help.  My startup
scripts do change the video mode for all screens.  I don't use
moused at all FWIW.

-- 
Skip, who doesn't work for Verizon.
Received on Thu Feb 10 2005 - 20:00:06 UTC

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