HEADSUP: New pts code triggers panics on amd64 systems.

[Gary Jennejohn]

Giorgos Keramidas writes:
> On 2006-02-01 15:55, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > After a binary search, I have determined that the new pts code is
> > triggering kernel panics on an AMD64 system.
> 
> It also makes syscons unusable here.
> 
> I just rebuilt a HEAD snapshot from today's latest CVSup, installed it
> in /dev/ad0s1a (my test partition), and the behavior is still the same
> as a few days ago:
> 
>     - single user mode shell works fine
> 
>     - in multiuser mode, when syscons reaches a login prompt
>       i have to press RET twice to see the last line
> 
> It seems that something is broken in the way syscons detects whether an
> output line should be flushed out, but I'm not sure.
> 
> A snapshot from -D '2006/01/26 01:30:00 UTC' works fine (just before the
> first pts change).
> 
> I don't know how to debug this or provide more useful feedback, but I'll
> look at the diffs later today, when I'm done with $REALJOB stuff.
> 

I'm running a kernel from Feb  5 09:15 (GMT+1) w/o any problems, even
X works OK.

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