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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:19:20 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting syscons behaviour - [followup]
Message-ID:  <20020128231919.GI85642@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C55D28C.30302@yahoo.com>
References:  <3C55D17E.7010707@yahoo.com> <3C55D28C.30302@yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 28), Jim Bryant said:
> Oh yeah, I immediately did a shutdown with reboot, and the problem
> did not duplicate itself.
> 
> Jim Bryant wrote:
> 
> >After upgrading -current, then reverting back to the previous [more 
> >stable] kernel, upon rebooting after reverting, I noticed the oddest 
> >thing on ttyv0.  Apparently, after /etc/rc took over in init all of the 
> >text was still in the kernel color scheme.
> >
> >FreeBSD wahoo.kc.rr.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Jan 18 
> >22:30:28 CST 2002
> >
> >All I can say is that this is the first time I have seen this kinda 
> >thing under FreeBSD, and I've been using it since version 1.1.5.1

This happens to me about 50% of the time, but only with an SMP kernel,
and only with a verbose kernel boot.  I just don't boot verbose anymore
:)  I assume it's some sort of locking problem in the console driver.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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