On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:42:27 +0100
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:

> You could check with something like 
> 
>    stty -a -f /dev/console

...gives me...

cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf
        -cdtrcts

...so hardware flow control is turned off at this point.

Doing a continue from the debugger tells me that the system stops booting long before it reads sysctl.conf.

I put ddb.fromconsole=0 into /etc/sysctl.conf and I see the trace which this generated during startup but this is after the point where the system halts if the console is not connected.

Looking at the original stack trace I can see that it is likely the zstty driver is incorrectly thinking it has been sent a break. Also, this seems to happen before any config files are read, so it is unlikely I will be able to configure my way out of this.

I think I am going to have to download the sources and debug it.

Thanks again.
-- 
Michael Smith