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

From: "Juan RP" <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
To: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:31 +0200

 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
 To: "Juan RP" <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
 Cc: <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
 Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:19 PM
 Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
 
 
 > 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
 
 Ahh, running dev_mkdb fixed the problem, now it works fine:
 
 [juan@XenUN][~]> sysctl kern.consdev
 kern.consdev = xencons
 [juan@XenUN][~]>
 
 Thanks.