On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:14:45PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Eirik Øverby wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > With relatively recent 5.4, I'm seeing hangs that worry me. The box > > (dual opteron) accepts keyboard input, but it won't actually DO > > anything.. SSHing in gives me a TCP session but no actualy password > > prompt. Trying to log in on (serial) console doesn't work, I just get > > a newline after entering the username, no password prompt. On SSH > > shells alredy open, I can't even get a new prompt line, all I get is > > newlines. > > I've seen this if you have console redirection set to "always" on certain > BIOSes. Some apparently can stay alive after FreeBSD steals the serial > port and jumps into protected mode. Most notice loader fiddling with the > port registers and know to get out of the way. > > Try turning it off or setting it to "Boot Loader" or turn off "CR > Redirection after POST". > > > telnet> send brk > > Cyclades? > > > KDB: enter: Line break on console > > 3KtDhB:a s tpaicdk 1b1a0e00:0 > > Ah, interleaved output :-) > > > aitd l e _ p r o c ( ) a t i d l e _ p r o c + 0 x 1 1 3 > > The spaces here are what I'm guessing is the console redirection. Or two simultaneous panics from different CPUs..I get this quite frequently (but not the DDB prompt loop). Kris
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