On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:02, Chris Ridd wrote: > > On 7 May 2009, at 17:55, John Martin wrote: > >> Chris Ridd wrote: >>> >>> I can give that a try, but maybe it is worth getting some >>> diagnostic info first. >>> >>>> Does this system have a serial port (ttya)? >>> >>> Yes it does. >>> >> The original post says the box no longer responds to pings and USB >> mouse/keyboard >> activity ceases. Setting the console to the serial port allows >> debugging of a box >> stuck at a high priority. > > It wedged a couple of times this morning, so I figured I'd set up a > serial console :-) > > The console (minicom running on Linux) seems to be output-only - is > there any magic required to have an interactive serial console *and* > an interactive X server?
It just wedged again with some slight display corruption in a gnome- terminal running a big "gmake clean". The only thing in the console is when I logged in: --- canopus console login: Jun 1 14:57:16 canopus gnome-keyring- daemon[1389]: coulk --- I'm imagine the last char's been overwritten. But the line doesn't look terribly relevant. Cheers, Chris
