Odd-looking serial console prompt on RPI2

Shawn Webb shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org
Sat Mar 11 17:49:43 UTC 2017


On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:29:18PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:09:37PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 03:02:45PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > > The bugs should be fixed as of r314682. ?It looks like the bugs have
> > > long been in the pl011 driver, but were masked by having a fifo depth
> > > of 1 byte -- it all sorta worked by accident previously.
> > 
> > Thanks for the fix! But it looks to be only partial. When I connect to
> > the serial console via either cu or screen, I don't get corrupted text,
> > but no keypresses are registered. Hitting enter at the login prompt does
> > absolutely nothing. I'm at the latest commit of hardened/current/master
> > on HardenedBSD for both the RPI3 and my laptop.
> > 
> > I'm using this serial cable from Adafruit:
> > https://www.adafruit.com/product/954
> 
> It looks like I had a bad cable. Sorry for the line noise. Switching to
> a different cable worked.

Looks like the problem is back, but manifest in a different way.
Screenshot:

https://goo.gl/photos/XYx6v1jCTVCGrnhd6

Thanks,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder and Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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