Re: -current hangs; serial console oddities

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello.  It sounds like you hav BIOS serial redirection enabled, and
a getty running on the serial port as well.  If so, you're talking to both
login processes, with keystrokes ping ponging between them randomly.  If
it's a serial port, and not a bios redirected port, disable console logins
in /etc/ttys, leaving getty enabled on tty00 or which ever tty corresponds
to the serial port this is.  I think once you do that, all will be OK.
-Brian

On Dec 6,  4:33pm, David Young wrote:
} Subject: Re: -current hangs; serial console oddities
} On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:51:37PM -0600, David Young wrote:
} > Am I alone in noticing strange stalls and peculiar serial console behavior
} > in -current?  The problem is at least as old as version 5.99.01.
} > 
} > I just booted my test machine, a Soekris net4521, and the boot messages
} > stopped here:
} > 
} > Starting cron.
} > Fri Dec  5 11:25:32 CST 2008
} > 
} > NetBSD/i386 (
} > 
} > I tapped enter a few times, and a login prompt did appear---I
} > typed my login and Enter, and waited:
} > 
} > NetBSD/i386 (cuw) (console)
} > 
} > login: root
} 
} Here is a new wrinkle: sometimes the line 'NetBSD/i386' line
} is as above, sometimes it is:
} 
} NetBSD/i386 (cuw) (constty)
} 
} I expect for it to be either 'constty' or 'console', always, but not
} one or the other!  What's going on, there?  FWIW, the system seems to
} behave equally badly whether it says 'console' or 'constty'.
} 
} Dave
} 
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