CentOS 5 Server :: Serial Console Does Not Work?
Apr 16, 2009
I configured the serial consol on centos5 as follows
# dmesg |grep tty
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A[code]......
But I could not consol Centos server from my labtop (win xp) Is there missing or wrong configurations ?
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Oct 7, 2010
I've got a home server running ubuntu 10.0.4. It have no monitor or keyboard. So I want to access it from a serial console. (I use SSH currently but if something goes wrong, I need to be able to do something... so serial console seems a fine thing). OK, so on the server, I tell grub to output everything on ttyS0 and opened a getty on ttyS0. On the client side (Laptop running Ubuntu 10.0.4 with pl2303 USB to Serial adapter) I use Minicom.
Home server restart:I see grub menu, linux kernel messages, login prompt. But, I can't do anything:In grub or at the login prompt, no key press is recognized by the server.I've got write permission to /dev/ttyUSB0. I tried a different getty (mgetty)with no success.I stopped the getty on ttyS0 on the server. And run minicom.
From the server's minicom, if I type something, it appear on the client screen. From the client's minicom, if I type something, some garbage appear on the server screen :(One of this things for each char typed). If I short-circuit pin 2 and 3 of the client serial port, it echoed what I type. The two serial ports are connected with a nullmodem cable. (seems to be a full handshaking cable). Of course, same serial port config for both minicom, grub and getty. Hope I'm understandable enough. (English not my primary language). Can somebody help me make this *$*#! serial console working right ? I'm on it for 10 hours now with no success...
Edit : I nearly forgot to tell you I had to update the standard ubuntu kernel to 2.6.34-020634rc1-generic because there was a bug in the pl2303 driver in the stock kernel (2.6.32-25-generic) which prevented me from doing anything (even receiving).
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May 18, 2010
I add one serical card which is extended to 4 serial ports to my host, but in centos 5.4, only 3 (In my machine, is ttyS1, ttyS2 and ttyS3,ttyS0 is another serial port) of my host can be used, and /dev/ttyS4 doesn't work.
$ sudo cat /dev/ttyS4
cat: /dev/ttyS4: No such device or address
The card info is as follows:
Host> lspci -vvv
03:01.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) (prog-if 06 [16950])
Subsystem: AFAVLAB Technology Inc Unknown device 2150
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Dec 17, 2009
I`m looking for a a X-Window in CentOS. At the moment I work with console only in text mode
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I am hoping to be able to get an old serial-touchscreen to work with a usb/serial adapter. I had this touchscreen working some years ago on different hardware. I would like to hook it to the machine I am setting up as a multimedia host with mythtv among other things.
Following the instructions I left behind when I got this to work way back when does not work. See [URL] ....
This info is a work around to get the xserver to see the touchscreen. [URL] ....
I do know that the touchscreen works as I am able to get garbage on the screen as in the first part of my howto. But I have not had any success getting xorg to see it. I wish I had posted a copy of the xorg.conf at the time, but......
There is an issue with the current xserver in testing that I am hoping the next update (in unstable) will fix when it gets pushed to testing. That is that Code: Select all# X -configure fails with a segfault. So I am not able to generate the xorg.conf needed to get it to work. I was going to post a bugreport, that is when I found out there is an update in unstable, so I am waiting for it to get pushed at the moment.
Anyway I am hoping that I can link /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/tty0 and get it to work. I would like some kind of guess as to my chances of success before I go to all the work of getting the monitor hooked to the host.
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Feb 21, 2009
On my CentOS 5.2 install I've installed a dual-port serial card based on the NetMOS 9835 chipset. I've followed the serial instructions, but everything they tell me to do is already done - see setserial outputs below. I've compared these values to the lspci output (below, NetMos card is at the bottom of the output) for the card and it appears right. Problem being, I can't use the serial ports. Oh and I did use search, and looked at every 9835-related article before posting this :)
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Jun 20, 2010
I am trying to pxe boot ubuntu 10.04.When it boot up,it doesn't show up login prompt from serial console ttyS0, Why ttyS0.conf job isn't invoked automatically ? is there anything wrong with configuration?
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Jun 20, 2010
I am trying to pxe boot ubuntu 10.04
grub config:
Code:
title Linux NFS
dhcp
root (nd)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34 console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/home/nfsroot ip=dhcp rw
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.34-pxenfs
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Why ttyS0.conf job isn't invoked automatically ? is there anything wrong with configuration?
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I have a dell poweredge server. In the bios, it has the option to redirect the screen to the serial port. There is also the check box "redirection after boot" which from what I understand will let me to continue to use the serial port attached to a terminal as if it was the main VGA monitor with a keyboard attached.
When I start the machine up, everything goes as expected, I see the output from the bios on my serial terminal, until debian actually starts booting. It all goes blank. If i attach a monitor i can see it is indeed booted and waiting at the debian login prompt. What should I do from here? I was under the impression that if i enabled "console redirection after boot" that the os would be none the wiser and i could continue using the serial console as the main screen as needed, but that does not seem to be the case.
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i was using a serial console program (not minicom) two weeks back but took a break and have no idea what it is! man, it was awesome, too. it had a nice gui, similar to hyperterminal...and from what i think i remember it came packaged with f14.
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I am looking for a solution to administer my remote server running SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) - Kernel 2.6.16.13-4-smp. I have made changes to server and is able to see the boot process and also able to login to system through serial console.
My question, will I be able to administer the server through serial console incase if my root partition is corrupted and system has gone to maintenance shell(or root shell).
Also is there way to go directly to maintenance shell from grub(not talking about single user mode). I want to go maintenance shell where / partition is not mounted.
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I have installed KDE and all the software for it to run on my server through the serial console but when I go and run "startx" I get the following and KDE doesn't start running.
root@u15434060:~# startx
X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-28-server x86_64 Ubuntu
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I found this guide [url] but it doesn't work with Natty
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I am trying to connect to serial console, local one, just to verify than it works, is is possible?Well, I configure serial console
Code:
# ttyS0 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.
[code]...
It is started, now I am trying to connect to the console via minicom, is it possible from machine where the console is running?If not, how could I check it remotely?
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I just install xen and kernel-xen version 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen, booting into the xen kernel dom0 shows me continous colorful scrambling and scrolling. I can ssh to dom0 and get correct display but the dom0 console is where it shows the colorful garbage scrolling. i have the Supermicro X7DC motherboard with a XGI Z9 graphics card. GUI is not installed and I don't have the rhgb parameter in my grub.conf. My grub.conf is plain and unmodified.
#boot=/dev/md0
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
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Code:
Found the following devices:
/dev/ttyS1
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info:
pentium dual core
2GB ram
HDD 300GB
ubuntu 10.04 32-bits
what is thiis and how to fix it??
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Label on card: "I-440 PCI 4S1P IO Card"
Code:
# lspci -v
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