>Number:         10999
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       unhelpful panic message when no console device is found
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 12 19:42:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     darkstar@pgh.net
>Release:        all
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
>How-To-Repeat:

  Accedently configure the wrong display card and wonder what "panic:
cnopen: cn_tab->cn_dev == NODEV" means.

>Fix:

Index: cons.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/dev/cons.c,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 cons.c
--- cons.c	2000/06/12 05:02:22	1.37
+++ cons.c	2000/09/13 02:35:07
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 		 * code. Panicing looks better than jumping into nowhere
 		 * through cdevsw below....
 		 */
-		panic("cnopen: cn_tab->cn_dev == NODEV\n");
+		panic("cnopen: no console device: cn_tab->cn_dev == NODEV\n");
 	}
 	if (dev == cndev) {
 		/*
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 		 * dev == 0 and cn_dev has not been set, but was probably
 		 * initialised to 0.
 		 */
-		panic("cnopen: cn_tab->cn_dev == dev\n");
+		panic("cnopen: no console device: cn_tab->cn_dev == dev\n");
 	}
 
 	if (cn_devvp == NULLVP) {


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