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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F$n in 2.6.0-test5
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:57:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030913015747.GC4489@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063414148.2892.26.camel@patehci2>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:49:08PM -0600, Pat LaVarre wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on this, it's rather messy. Your lockup might be caused by
> > printk spew during console switch, see if it still locks up with the
> > sleep debugging turned off.
> 
> Yes, thank you, Ctrl+Alt+F$n now works if only I
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=n.
> 
> Also `sudo cat /proc/kmsg | tee ...` also suddenly starts working.
> 
> I wonder if somehow /proc/kmsg now working is a clue?  Back with =y, my
> `dmesg` was clean but via /proc/kmsg I was seeing garbage like
> 
> mmae t itbl
> 
> or:
> 
> mmae t itle

What video are you using? I'm guessing you've got a framebuffer console?
VESA by any chance?

> for what now again is such reassuring chatter as:
> 
> <6>scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> <5>  Vendor: Iomega    Model: RRD               Rev: 23.D
> <5>  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <7>WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> <7>USB Mass Storage device found at 3
> <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x caddy
> <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc maybe not writeable
> <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc writable profile: 0x0002
> <7>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> 
> Pat LaVarre
> 
> P.S. I could easily check to see if =y kills an ssh session or just the
> display, if that helps.

That might help track down a bug in the console, sure. Not sure what's
going on with /proc/kmsg though.
 
> P.P.S.
> 
> Tentatively I conclude "sleep debugging ... off" meant this .config
> change because I see:

Yep, that's the one.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-13  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1063378664.5059.19.camel@patehci2>
2003-09-12 18:19 ` console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F$n in 2.6.0-test5 Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 23:06   ` Matt Mackall
2003-09-13  0:49     ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-13  1:57       ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2003-09-13 13:38         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-13 14:49           ` Michael Frank
2003-09-13 15:47             ` Michael Frank
2003-09-13 23:12               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-14  9:32               ` console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F_n " Pavel Machek
2003-09-14  0:24           ` 2.6.0-test5: intermittent crash on chvt to X; was console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F$n " Michael Frank
2003-09-14 23:04             ` Pat LaVarre

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