Re: Anyone else seeing a stack of newline chars expressed at boot?

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:47:36 UTC
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:07 AM Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 9/1/24 19:28, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, 5:26 PM Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I have only been seeing this in the last few weeks. Perhaps ten days or
> >> so. When I see the nice beastie on the console I then get each second
> >> delay expressed with a newline thus :
> >>
> >>    |                                         |
> >>    +-----------------------------------------+
> >>      Autoboot in 10 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 9 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 8 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 7 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 6 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 5 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 4 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 3 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>      Autoboot in 2 seconds. [Space] to pause
> >>
> >> Seems odd.
> >>
> >> Curious if anyone else sees this?
> >>
> >
> > What kind of console?
> >
>
> Serial. Nothing fancy. The machine I use to watch the serial port is
> running 14.1-RELEASE-p3 and nothing fancy :
>
> callisto$
> callisto$ uname -a
> FreeBSD callisto 14.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64
> callisto$
> callisto$ id
> uid=1001(admsys) gid=1001(admsys) groups=1001(admsys),0(wheel),68(dialer)
> callisto$
> callisto$ echo $TERM
> vt100
> callisto$
> callisto$ cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cuau0
> Connected
>
> triton#
> triton# uname -apKU
> FreeBSD triton 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #12
> main-n271936-0578fe492284-dirty: Sun Sep  1 22:52:43 GMT 2024
> root@triton:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 amd64
> 1500023 1500023
> triton#
> triton# echo $TERM
> vt100
> triton#
>
>
>
> So there we have it.
>

stty -a?

Warner


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