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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:41:53 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NOTICE: /dev/cuaa%d -> /dev/cuad%d renaming 
Message-ID:  <50069.1097703713@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:40:55 PDT." <16749.41191.255005.474422@ran.psg.com> 

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In message <16749.41191.255005.474422@ran.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>>> in a headless system could this cause ttyd0 to not run a
>>> responsive getty?  i just cvsupped and built, and the oob
>>> serial console no longer gets a login prompt.  it gets
>>> everything right up to it, though.
>> 
>> If you have changed from ttyd0 to cuaa0 in /etc/ttys this will
>> happen, you need to change it to cuad0 in that case.
>> 
>> If that is not the cause, I messed something up and I'll chase it
>> down and fix it.
>
>it is not the case.  i.e., /etc/ttys is the default one with
>one 'off' changed to an 'on.'
>
>but this is also happening with a system last cvsupped 5 oct.

Are you sure your cable has something connected to the DCD pin ?

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