Re: -current hangs; serial console oddities

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, David Young wrote:

> 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'.

Which one do you have enabled in /etc/ttys?

Are you getting "getty repeating too frequently on <blah>" syslog 
messages?


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