On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 08:49:16AM -0800, Mark Peek wrote: > At 4:11 PM +0100 3/10/02, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:07:07AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > >> > >> For the past couple of months, I've been working with a set of identical > >> test boxes from SGI which, for some reason, stopped responding to serial > >> break on the serial console. I switched to the 'alternative break' option > >> in LINT, and things work fine. I assumed it was actually some issue with > >> that particular batch of machines, since no one else had had a problem, > >> and I didn't really have time to follow up. Yesterday, I brought online > >> two more crash boxes via serial console, both older TeleNet servers, and > >> noticed that neither of them respond to serial break over the serial > >> console using cu. This leads me to wonder two things: > >> > >> (1) Is serial break currently broken in -CURRENT > >> (2) Is serial break currently broken in 'cu'? > > > >I had similar experiences with tip trying to break into ddb on the > >AlphaStation DS10 with -current. I thought it was just me ;-) > > Hitting ~# in tip worked fine for me with a -current CVSup'd from > yesterday. However, it did stump me for a second until I realized I > was initially escaping into SSH and not tip.
Let me clarify: the DS10 is running -current, the x86 that has tip running is on -stable. It could be that the DS10 was sufficiently catatonic to not react to a break (how likely is that in the first place? I was looking at a hard lockup). Now that I followed Drew's suggestion to <quote> I suggest reverting rev 1.61 of alpha/alpha/interrupt.c (eg, disable interrupt thread preemption). I'm on the west coast right now, away from my alphas, but I had several buildworlds complete last week with ithread preemption disabled. Drew </quote> I have not seen a lockup anymore. I also had to take out options SMP in order to get the kernel link. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
