From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 14 20:20:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE65337B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01935; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:20:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2F4K1j09838; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:20:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15024.17137.342441.45530@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:20:01 -0500 (EST) To: leclercn@videotron.ca Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog reports weird things In-Reply-To: <3AB037F6.80405@videotron.ca> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9A4F@l04.research.kpn.com> <15024.11923.918574.297867@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3AB037F6.80405@videotron.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org tcn writes: > I did not try the serial console. I know FreeBSD has some serious > problems with serial ports (silo overflows and dropouts even at > 9600bps). Right now, the console is where I can see the mess... Can you at least try setting the console to serial and seeing if the "mess" goes away, please? This will make the boot process quite silent. Once you're up and running, please log into the graphics head and do whatever it is you do that causes the problem. Speaking of this -- what is it that you do & how reproducable is it? Will running 'yes' do it, for example? FWIW, I have nearly 20 alphas running 4.2 with serial consoles & they all work just dandy. None of them have graphics heads though. I'm planning to put a head on my test box and try to reproduce this tomorrow... Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message