Re: [sysvinit-devel] the sysvinit pause

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:42:26PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:35:08 AM Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:50:10AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> > > when booting,
> > > I can see
> > > INIT: version 2.88 booting
> > > but it stop 30 seconds  before and after "version 2.88 booting".
> > > 
> > > I have debugged the code, found that:
> > > the 30seconds is about close(fd) in function:
> > > void print(char *s)                               (src/init.c)
> > > 
> > > If I open "INITDEBUG" in src/init.h, I can boot normally.
> > > 
> > > anyone can give some suggestion?
> > > THANKS
> > 
> > Strange as 5 times of 10000 µs are less than 30s ... compare with
> > console_open() used by print() ... do you have some unusual console devices
> > around and/or set the environment variable CONSOLE in the kernels
> > command/parameter line?
> great thanks for the response.:)
> the 'print' openned /dev/console.
> I'm using s3c2442, the argument of kernel is console=ttySAC0,115200.
                                                       ^^^^^^^
Shouldn't that be /dev/ttySA0

> and I have another problem, the getty(busybox) only print out the issue, but 
> no login prompt, after disable the issue( add -i got gettty in inittab), it 
> can display the login prompt.
> 
> the two problems are both related with the serial console, but I have no idea.

The serial console of the ARM(?) does not respond ...

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