Re: console redirect issue

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:02:06AM -0500, Keith Patton wrote:
> If we turn on "redirection to serial 1", after boot still disabled,
> all comes up find but it screws up conserver daemon process. After the
> remote is alive, we can restart the daemon and then it
> works...Therefore, by restarting the daemon on the console we work
> again, indicates to us that the bios settings may be correct because
> you can then login.

does the daemon become unresponsive, or just that console?  if you can
still connect to the console, does it come back to life after you do a
'^Ecd' and then '^Eco' (which just downs the console and brings it back
up).  if so, then something weird is going on within the state of that
one console, which helps debug where the problem is.

i assume that will be the case.  but, whatever the case, we'll need to
turn on the debugging flags, log all this data, and wade through it to
see what's going on and why it's getting confused.  add "-DDD" to the
conserver command line and make sure you're redirecting the output to a
file.  it'll make a *HUGE* pile out output.

oh...another thought.  how are you connecting the serial port to the
conserver host?  is it a local serial port or via a terminal server?  it
could be a software flow control issue too...if one side is set to
accept software flow control, you could get a ctrl-s in one of the
directions and hang up the entire thing.  if you have software flow
control enabled anywhere, try turning it off to see if that helps (and
if resetting the console with ^Ecd/^Eco works as well, that could
explain it...the drop of the connection resetting the line and the flow
control).  anyway, something else to think about before wading through
huge amounts of debug output.

Bryan