su problem

[Oliver Fromme]

Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Hi Oliver,
 > I saw you had similar problem for console on 2010
 > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Serial-console-problems-with-stable-8-td3950684.html

No, I don't think that the problem is related.  My problem
was with the serial console, while you don't have a serial
console attached at all (at least you didn't mention it).

 > but the thread wasn't ended by recommendation or conclusions by you.
 > 
 > did you solve that problem then?

No, I came to the conclusion that the serial console support
in FreeBSD 8 was broken somehow.  So I removed the console
cable; it's running with an old VGA CRT as the console for
now.  Fortunately I require console access very seldom, so
I don't have to drive to that machine often.  It's still
annoying, but I didn't find a better solution; downgrading
to 7.x isn't an option.

Best regards
   Oliver


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