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 22:37:29 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
 > 
 > ----- 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.
 
 OK. I'm commiting the change to create /dev/xencons at install time.
 
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