NetBSD Problem Report #40464

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From: o.reissig@web.de
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Subject: right terminal not selected after install
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>Number:         40464
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       right terminal not selected after install
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 24 00:05:00 +0000 2009
>Last-Modified:  Thu Sep 03 06:30:04 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Oliver Reißig
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD  4.0.1 NetBSD 4.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Oct  7 22:34:15 PDT 2008  builds@wb29:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/hpcmips/200810080053Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/hpcmips/compile/GENERIC hpcmips 
>Description:
When installing NetBSD-hpcmips with serial console only (actually installed on gxemul without framebuffer-support) the INSTALL kernel works, but GENERIC will fail booting with

Starting cron. 
Fri Jan 23 23:41:22 UTC 2009 
Jan 23 23:41:22  getty[406]: /dev/ttyE0: Device not configured 

It would be nice if the installer would set the appropriate settings in /etc/ttys depending on the console during installation.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
cat /etc/ttys 

      $NetBSD: ttys,v 1.8 2004/06/20 21:30:27 christos Exp $ 
# 
# name  getty                           type    status          comments 
# serial port 
console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on secure 
# Workstation console (framebuffer) ttys 
ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on secure 

(I changed off to on there)

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-hpcmips-maintainer->install-manager
Responsible-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:51:09 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
not port-specific and this way the right people will see it


From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, install-manager@NetBSD.org,
        port-hpcmips-maintainer@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
        gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, dholland@NetBSD.org, o.reissig@web.de
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/40464 (right terminal not selected after install)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:46:49 -0700

 On Dec 19,  4:58pm, dholland@NetBSD.org wrote:
 }
 } Synopsis: right terminal not selected after install
 } 
 } Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-hpcmips-maintainer->install-manager
 } Responsible-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
 } Responsible-Changed-When: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:51:09 +0000
 } Responsible-Changed-Why:
 } not port-specific and this way the right people will see it

      Actually /etc/ttys is port-specific (see
 src/etc/etc.<port>/ttys).  And, if something special needs to be done
 to it at install time, that would be a port-specific part of the
 install process.

 }-- End of excerpt from dholland@NetBSD.org

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/40464 (right terminal not selected after install)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 06:25:16 +0000

 On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:50:03AM +0000, John Nemeth wrote:
  >  } not port-specific and this way the right people will see it
  >  
  >       Actually /etc/ttys is port-specific (see
  >  src/etc/etc.<port>/ttys).  And, if something special needs to be done
  >  to it at install time, that would be a port-specific part of the
  >  install process.

 Well, each /etc/ttys is port-specific but the need to pick the right
 console is broad (if not quite universal), and the way to apply the
 choice by autoediting the file is the same everywhere. So I don't
 think that's a good argument.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

>Unformatted:

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