The following reply was made to PR port-xen/29887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:19:44 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
 > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:23:03 +0200
 > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi,
 > > Can you check if this is fixed by
 > > cd /dev
 > > sh MAKEDEV xencons
 > > 
 > > The default install doesn't create /dev/xencons, I have a patch to fix this.
 > 
 > [juan@XenUN][~]> ls -l /dev/xencons 
 > crw-------  1 root  wheel  143, 0 Apr  6 21:35 /dev/xencons
 > [juan@XenUN][~]> sysctl kern.consdev
 > zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  sysctl kern.consdev
 > [juan@XenUN][~]>
 
 Did you run dev_mkdb ?
 Note that on my test box, without /dev/xencons I get:
 comore# sysctl kern.consdev
 kern.consdev = (null)
 not a core dump
 
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