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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:28 am    Post subject: [Solved] E250 sun stops responding when closing terminal ses Reply with quote

I have a e250 headless sun system running 2.4 kernel. Everything is working (finally). basically I had to install the whole thing through a terminal connection on my windows box. It boots correctly and shows a login correctly through the terminal session. My problem is that if I close the terminal window the e250 appears to stall completely, stops responding to pings, any ssh sessions I have open timeout etc. I have to leave the terminal session running for it to stay working. Annoying to say the least. Here's my /etc/inittab file for terminal setup:

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cat /etc/inittab
#
# /etc/inittab:  This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#                the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:  Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@cistron.nl>
# Modified by:  Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
# Modified by:  Daniel Robbins, <drobbins@gentoo.org>
# Modified by:  Martin Schlemmer, <azarah@gentoo.org>
#
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sysvinit/files/inittab,v 1.2 2004/12/22 03:25:20 vapier Exp $

# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit

# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot

l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin

# TERMINALS
#c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
#c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

# SERIAL CONSOLES
s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now

# Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
# Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
# info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
# extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
# to the "default" runlevel.
x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh

# End of /etc/inittab


Any ideas would be much appreciated!!


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the key turned all the way on or just in the first position?

I seem to remember when running solaris that physically removing the terminal cable would drop it to the OK prompt but turning the key all the way on disabled the break.

Of course, I may be way off here and it's o/s related :-)
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stick a "kernel.stop-a=0" in /etc/sysctl.conf and run sysctl -p if you're not planning on a reboot.
That disables console break thus avoiding the "noise drops me to the OK prompt" issue.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The key is only in the first position. After first position is the debug mode and then the locked mode....

As for the Kernel.stop-a=0 part, you say I should run that if I'm not planning on a reboot. What does that mean? After I set that up I cant reboot anymore? Sorry I'm definitly new to all this. Thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You run "sysctl -p" after modifying /etc/sysctl.conf in order to take effect, that's what i mean you do it if you're not planning on rebooting the machine, sysctl gets run at boot time.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sunthief wrote:
The key is only in the first position. After first position is the debug mode and then the locked mode....


plop it in the locked position and stop-A/break should be disabled.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks a lot, just got back from x-mas and tried out the :

"kernel.stop-a=0" in /etc/sysctl.conf

and it worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!
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