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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:39:36 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sio && serial console in -current?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101101237560.24933-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101081838170.26369-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> Something wierd has been happening lately- the serial console on my i386
> machine works fine up until init is forked.. THen the output is mangled, and
> one gets replicated and/or mangled stuff. On a reboot I'm getthing things
> like:
> 
> WWWWWaaaaaiiiiitttttiiiiinnnnnggggg     (((((mmmmmaaaaaxxxxx     6666600000
> ssssseeeeecccccooooonnnnndddddsssss)))))     fffffooooorrrrr
> sssssyyyyysssssttttteeeeemmmmm     ppppprrrrroooooccccceeeeessssssssss
> `````bbbbbuuuuufffffdddddaaaaaeeeeemmmmmooooonnnnn'''''     tttttooooo
> ssssstttttoooooppppp...............ssssstttttoooooppppppppppeeeeeddddd

This may be caused by inconsistent settings in /etc/rc.serial.
/etc/rc.serial should rarely be changed from its default of doing nothing.

Bruce



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