Serial console output freezes
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Hi,
I installed the latest pfSense memstick version on an apu2 which I access through serial port.
After the installation, the machine will reboot but the console output will freeze.However, the pfsense is working fine, as it'll be accessible through the web interfaces or even through ssh once configured.
I saw from the Installing and upgrading page that
"Intel Atom systems containing HD Graphics chipsets may experience console problems after the update"and that as I have an AMD CPU, I could be concerned by
"Systems with similar console problems not containing a graphics chip supported by the i915 driver may need to reinstall 2.4.4 to use a UEFI console"but I am connecting through Serial port so I don't see the graphical part here and I can't really avoid using the serial port as use it for NIC reassignment.
I am currently wandering through the forum looking for similar behavior or issues but didn't find anything yet, so if you have any idea of what I am doing wrong or how to solve my problem I would be happy to ear it.
What bother me the most is that at the end of the install, it reboots correctly, but rebooting it from there will end up in the console getting stuck.Thanks in advance.
Here's the output I'm getting from pfSense before the console output freezes :
__ _ __ / _|___ ___ _ __ ___ ___ | '_ \| |_/ __|/ _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \ | |_) | _\__ \ __/ | | \__ \ __/ | .__/|_| |___/\___|_| |_|___/\___| |_| +============Welcome to pfSense===========+ __________________________ | | / ___\ | 1. Boot Multi User [Enter] | | /` | 2. Boot [S]ingle User | | / :-| | 3. [Esc]ape to loader prompt | | _________ ___/ /_ | | 4. Reboot | | /` ____ / /__ ___/ | | | | / / / / / / | | Options: | | / /___/ / / / | | 5. [K]ernel: kernel (1 of 2) | | / ______/ / / | | 6. Configure Boot [O]ptions... | |/ / / / | | | / /___/ | | | / | | | /_________________________/ +=========================================+ /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x17bfd50 data=0xb93c38+0x517b18 syms=[0x8+0x197280+0x8+0x197de9] /boot/entropy size=0x1000 Booting... KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2018 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 #2 b00c407ba5d(RELENG_2_4_4): Mon Nov 26 11:41:48 EST 2018 root@buildbot2.nyi.netgate.com:/build/ce-crossbuild-244/obj/amd64/ZfGpH5cd/build/ce-crossbuild-244/pfSense/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense amd64 FreeBSD clang version 6.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_600/final 326565) (based on LLVM 6.0.0) VT(vga): resolution 640x480 CPU: AMD GX-412TC SOC (998.15-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x730f01 Family=0x16 Model=0x30 Stepping=1 Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> Features2=0x3ed8220b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C> AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1d4037ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT,Topology,PNXC,DBE,PTSC,PL2I> Structured Extended Features=0x8<BMI1> XSAVE Features=0x1<XSAVEOPT> SVM: NP,NRIP,AFlush,DAssist,NAsids=8 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 4815060992 (4592 MB) avail memory = 4071804928 (3883 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <CORE COREBOOT> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) TSC: P-state invariant, performance statisticsCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT,Topology,PNXC,DBE,PTSC,PL2I>>feb25000-0xfeb253ff at device 17.0 on pci0
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If you can get to the GUI, go to System > Advanced, Admin Access tab and make sure that the serial console is enabled with the speed you expect. Save the page, reboot, and see if there is a change in behavior.
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@jimp Checked on the GUI, it is enabled and with the right settings (115200 8N1)
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I saw another post almost identical to this recently where the problem ended up being a bug in the terminal software (minicom, perhaps) where it failed to update/scroll when maximized. Restoring it to a smaller window allowed it to work.
Maybe it's a client-side issue?