hutch@net1.ucsd.edu (Jim Hutchison) (09/24/88)
In article <1162@ucsd.EDU> I wrote: >I have been seeing an interesting problem on a Sun 4/280 I have >been using to do some dr11-w development. When the interface is >very busy (sending continuously for long periods, minutes), console >messages will occasionally stray off to /dev/ttya instead of going >to the console. [...] From: ll-xn!ames!elroy!tybalt.caltech.edu!uhley@ucsd.edu (John Uhley) >Random (un)educated guess: If a sun can't see it's keyboard it >will try and use ttya (and then ttyb) as a console terminal. If >your IO board is stealing cycles from whatever detects a keyboard >you'd get that kind of effect. So can anyone at Sun field this? Is this dynamic reconfiguration of the console message device? If so, I "presume" I can expect the problem anytime the system gets particularly busy. Atleast its better than not getting the messages anywhere at all (although they still end up in /usr/adm/messages). /* Jim Hutchison UUCP: {dcdwest,ucbvax}!cs!net1!hutch ARPA: JHutchison@ucsd.edu These are my opinions, and now you have your perceptions of them. */