From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 7 15:14:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA06124 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA06113 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id AAA32624 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:13:53 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by prospero (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00966; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 21:26:45 +0100 To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/991: pcvt behavior at crashes Date: 7 Feb 1996 20:26:44 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 39 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4fb1u4$nk@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199602031119.MAA01363@prospero> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote: : >Number: 991 : >Category: kern : >Synopsis: pcvt keyboard doesn't accept input at crash reboot : FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 2 13:20:53 MET 1996 : root@prospero:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_CONFIG : CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) : real memory = 20971520 (20480K bytes) : avail memory = 19296256 (18844K bytes) : Probing for devices on the ISA bus: : ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 on isa : ed0: address 00:40:95:20:0a:14, type NE2000 (16 bit) : vt0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard : vt0: tvga 8900cl, 80/132 col, mono, 2 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.20-b24] : : >Description: : if the system crashes, coredumps and then want's to reboot it displays : "automatic reboot in 15 seconds, pree any key to stop" - but it won't react : to a keypress - the same worked fine with syscons : setting PCVT_KBD_FIFO to 0 resolved the problem for me - thus i think the bad code is somethere in pcvt_kbd.c - maybe this may help to find the bug (joerg - any idea ?) t p.s.: a good way to crash the system (for testing purposes :-) is modload -e union_init /lkm/union_mod.o as root -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery