Problem with CUPS?

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

:Has anyone had any issues with their machines locking up soon after
:cups starts up? :-)  Nothing shows up on the console (ie. no debugger),
:but my entire machine locks solid.
:
:Adam
   Adam (and anyone with the freeze-on-serial-port or freeze-on-CUPS-start
   problem), do me a favor and try some things:
   (1) rename /dev/ttyd0, ttyd1, ttyd2, and ttyd3 to something else, e.g.
	/dev/ttyd0.x, /dev/ttyd1.x, ...  Then see if CUPS starts up.
 

It does.

   (2) Restore the original namings and try to run a getty on ttyd0 by
	editing /etc/ttys and HUPing init.  See if that crashes the machine.
 

Heh...  I can do one better for you.  For a little while now, when I 
boot with the console going through the serial port, it doesn't get 
beyond mounting / before the machine locks up.  I never put 2+2 together 
with the posts I read about the crash when running getting on ttyd0, 
though I should have.


   (3) If it does crash the machine, reboot (single user) and fix ttys back,
	remove the last modification I had made to the serial port code 
	(see patch below), and try running a getty on ttyd0 again to see if
	it still crashes.

					

I'll patch it now and rebuild the entire system tonight (haven't done 
that in a while)..  I'll try and get back to you tomorrow.

Adam