green lines hell

2020-02-25 Thread Andrei M.
In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware probing going on or when a connection change happens to the net card (I use an ASUS K70ID lapt

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi ANdrei, Andrei M. wrote: > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > probing going on or when a connection change happens to t

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Benny Siegert
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. wrote: > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > probing going on or when a connectio

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote: > In NetBSD, kernel messages go to a VT called "console", which is the > first VT by default. Once you finish the installation, you can edit > /etc/ttys, set console to "off" and ttyE0 to "on". This turns the > first VT into a regular V

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. wrote: > > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > > first vt. In my case it mostly conce

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Martin Husemann wrote: > We probably should modify the scripts to run sysinst on ttyE1 if we detect > we are on the ttyE0 (and switch over to that, and back when sysinst exits). It would be nice is the solution also worked for serial consoles. I keep having issues with scripted serial console inst

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > It would be nice is the solution also worked for serial consoles. > I keep having issues with scripted serial console installs failing > because sysinst output is corrupted or lost when kernel messages are > printed. Yeah, the t

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread ignatios
Hi, On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:01:06PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote: > > [...] Or if you run X, > > Xconsole is typically able to show kernel messages in a window. > > Alternatively sysinst could suppress those messages during cer

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
riccardo.mott...@libero.it (Riccardo Mottola) writes: >I think it is your mouse that is connecting/reconnecting several times. >I have seen that happen, coul d be bad power saving or something similar. It's a feature in "modern" USB mice to detach/attach regularly when not accessed by a driver. I

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson) writes: >It would be nice is the solution also worked for serial consoles. >I keep having issues with scripted serial console installs failing >because sysinst output is corrupted or lost when kernel messages are >printed. /dev/console can be redirected with the

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Dave B
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:35:31PM +0300, Andrei M. wrote: > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > probing going on or when a

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Andrei M.
ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 13:33, Benny Siegert : > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. wrote: > > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notificatio

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Andrei M.
ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 12:04, Riccardo Mottola : > > Hi ANdrei, Hi Riccardo, > > It is "normal" for any BSD system I have seen to spit these out. > However, the issue for you here is that they should not repeat like this. > I think it is your mouse that is connecting/reconnecting several times. >

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Andrei M.
ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 20:15, Dave B : > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:35:31PM +0300, Andrei M. wrote: > > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notificat

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:43:04 - (UTC), mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: Subject: Re: green lines hell > > /dev/console can be redirected with the TIOCCONS ioctl. That's how > xconsole works, it opens a pty, redirects console output to it > and then logs things writ