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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2001 20:10:53 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
Cc:        yokota@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syscons problem
Message-ID:  <20010520201053.A16627@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010520150721.D61994@klapaucius.zer0.org>; from "Gregory Sutter" on Sun May 20 15:07:22 GMT 2001
References:  <20010520150721.D61994@klapaucius.zer0.org>

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In the last episode (May 20), Gregory Sutter said:
> I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a
> certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that you
> can fix the bug.  My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although the
> problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STABLE.  I do not have a
> -CURRENT box.
> 
> FreeBSD trurl.zer0.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #6: Wed May 16 17:44:58 PDT 2001     gsutter@trurl.zer0.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN  i386
> 
> Here is a diff between a working kernel configuration file (GEN) and
> a non-working one (GEN.not):
> 
> trurl gsutter /sys/i386/conf $diff -u -0 GEN.not GEN
> --- GEN.not     Wed May 16 17:12:42 2001
> +++ GEN Wed May 16 17:49:06 2001
> @@ -61 +61 @@
> -options                SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000
> +#options               SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000

That's 8000 lines; 320 25-line screens, totaling 640000 bytes.  Do you
rally want a history that large?  
 
> I have not tested with other SC_HISTORY_SIZE values.
> 
> When I boot with a kernel compiled with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000
> option, I observe the following:
> 
> 1. No gettys are spawned.  If I ssh in, I can manually start 
> gettys. 

Does anything get logged in /var/log ?  If init can't spawn a getty, it
usually logs it.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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