Re: kern/43917: panic: cnopen: no console device

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43917; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/43917: panic: cnopen: no console device
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:40:06 +0100

 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
 > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:05:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > > Has the console com device been found ?
 > > 
 > > Yes, in the sense that I see the dmesg output and ddb prompt in a serial
 > > console, but I'll have to check for "com0: console" which I see in the
 > 
 > Yes, this was the sense of the question (and whenever com0 exists
 > at all in dmesg)
 
 So, no com0 doesn't appear in the "broken" version.
 
 But in the meantime, I have done a diff of the two source trees, rather
 than a cvs diff between tags, and see things like:
 
 --- src1/external/bsd/bind/dist/lib/isc/include/isc/mem.h       2010-09-02 
18:34:13.000000000 +0100
 +++ src2/external/bsd/bind/dist/lib/isc/include/isc/mem.h       2010-09-06 
15:43:00.000000000 +0100
 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH
   * REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
   * AND FITNESS.  IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
 - * INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
 + * INDIRECT, OR CONSEQU, this DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
   * LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
   * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
   * PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 
 which rather points to disk corruption :-(