On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:55:39PM +0100, Tim Day wrote: > In order to try and diagnose some rare system freezes which seem to have > started following upgrade to etch, I'm booting the problem machine with > an added > console=ttyS0,9600n8 > boot option, and have another machine connected by a serial cable > monitoring it (I haven't changed any getty stuff; not interested in > logging in over serial). This seems to work fine (in that I can capture > the console, although I haven't caught a crash yet). > > However, when gdm comes up following the boot, I now can't type > anything, not even ctrl-alt-Fn to another virtual console. (Mouse is > fine though). But if I ssh in from another machine and restart gdm, > once it's comes up again it responds to the keyboard just fine and I can > proceed to a usable xsession as normal (and ctrl-alt-Fn to other > terminals). > > I don't understand enough about the relationship between the kernel > console and X to know what's going on here. Any ideas ? >
I've never used any ?dm so don't know. However, re the serial console, you can have more than one console set. See the remote-serial-console-HOWTO. I would suggest that your serial console be in addition to the standard tty. The order matters but I forget it; see the HOWTO. Perhaps with two set, things will work right. Otherwise, add a boot script to run last (I think that's after cron) that restarts gdm. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
