From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 21 8:47:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEFA1599E for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14458; Fri, 21 May 1999 17:46:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 14388; Fri May 21 17:45:50 1999 Message-ID: <37457FCC.FF4B32CE@cdsec.com> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 17:46:20 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT problems - keyboard lockup! References: <19990521103244.A344@Denninger.Net> <37457DC4.CD84C812@cdsec.com> <19990521104023.A396@Denninger.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:37:40PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I built a new kernel last night and started a buildworld before going to > > > bed. Just a "tracking" type of thing to see what the state of the world > > > is on FreeBSD. > > > > > > This morning I tried to boot that kernel. It comes up, but the console > > > is dead! The DISPLAY is ok, but I have no keyboard control. Replugging > > > the keyboard does not help. > > > > Are you sure you haven't omitted the syscons device? > > You mean this one? > > device sc0 at isa? > > Yes, its in there (it shows on the boot trace). Right - I missed it when I scanned the trace. I suggested that because I once made that mistake and had just the behaviour you described. Presumably you can telnet in? How about trying the vt0 device instead? -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message