Date: 13 Jan 2000 11:45:15 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: adam@algroup.co.uk (Adam Laurie), stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console disappears after reboot Message-ID: <xzpr9fmp7wk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:33:04 -0500 (EST)" References: <200001121933.OAA11492@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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[moved to -stable from -security] "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> writes: > Adam Laurie wrote, > > Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I would prefer to simply do something > > > > in /etc/rc.local to force the console back to local kb/vga, or disable > > > > the serial console in the kernel itself... so my question is: what? Is > > > > there such a command/setting? > > > If a console has "died," you should [HUP init] > > Unfortunately not. I assume it only tries to refresh the serial console. > I don't think so. Is the getty(8) for the device (I assume ttyv0) still > in the ps(1) output? If it is, perhaps kill it. Either kill it dead > and SIGHUP init(8) to start the new one, or maybe some signal (a HUP?) > refreshes a getty. You're totally off the track. His problem is that the kernel (or the boot loader) decides that there is no built-in console and uses a serial console instead. This has nothing to do with init(8). I guess the right person to answer this kind of question would be Mike Smith or Daniel Sobral. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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