No Serial Console Menu
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Is your box an upgrade or fresh install of 2.0?
I don't really see why that make any difference but it seems to.Steve
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Its a fresh install of 2.0 RC3 on a 60Gigabyte Harddisk. The harddisk was moved to Firebox after initial installation and /etc/fstab had to be modified to allow normal boot without user interaction. Seems to be a well known and necessary procedure for Firebox.
At first I tried the "enable serial console" option in the webinterface and rebootet. But except from the usual boot messages there was no reaction at the serial console. Afterwards I tried to modify /etc/ttys without any success.
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I was also facing this issue on my Firebox X500. I simply solved this by invoking /etc/rc.initial by adding it to /etc/rc just before exit 0 at the end. Seems to be working just fine, except if I hit enter or ctrl-C in the menu. Then the behaviour isn't perhaps what it should be: /etc/rc get run again and at least web configurator dies.
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Hmm, interesting. This issue is going to become a problem for all X-core users when 2.0 is released.
Steve
Edit: Is anyone in this thread not using a Watchguard Firebox?
Seems very strange. It would appear that it's not a case of the console being sent somewhere other than the serial port but rather the script that displays the menu and subsequent actions is not being called.
Presumably something hardware related is stalling the script before it can run. Where is rc.initial called from? -
Ok,
Using the info found in here, and an old x500 laying around my house, I have come up with this "Band Aid" solution….
ssh into your pfSense equipped firebox, get to a command prompt, and issue the following commands -
mount -u -w /
cd /usr/local/share/misc
pkg_add -r wget
wget http://www.cps-texas.com/serialbandaid.sh
pkg_add -r nano
nano -w /etc/rc(At this point you will be in the nano text editor.....)
Add the following lines just BEFORE exit 0 at the end of the file -
--- COPY BELOW ---
Firebox serial console "Band-Aid" Loop Fix
/usr/local/share/misc/serialbandaid.sh
--- END COPY ---
Hit Ctrl-X, y to save, and you're done.....
reboot your firebox, and VIOLA!! you now should have a functional serial console menu, complete with trapping CTRL-C, Enter, etc....
-Andy
Andrew Miffleton
Voice Network Technician
DFW Business Telephones, Inc.
1260 Shiloh Rd.
Plano, Texas 75074
(972)424-4242 x455
http://www.dfwbt.com -
Nice. :)
After looking through the many startup scripts I'm still none the wiser about where or how the rc.initial script is intended to run. Neither can I see what makes the X-core so 'special'. The serial console works just fine on other Watchguard hardware.You can use fetch instead of wget and ee instead of nano, both are included in pfSense.
This is a good workaround though, thanks.
Steve
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Ok,
Using the info found in here, and an old x500 laying around my house, I have come up with this "Band Aid" solution….
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wget http://www.cps-texas.com/serialbandaid.sh
Great! Thanks a lot!
