On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Tracy Reed treed@ultraviolet.org wrote:
I am trying to get a CentOS 6.3 serial console to work with IPMI SOL. I think I have everything working but maybe the wrong baud rate on the getty:
Hi Tracy,
On a Dell PowerEdge 2950 I have CentOS 6.3 and Serial over LAN working. I too had issues with a feedback loop where two items were fighting and causing spontaneous invalid log ins. Below is simply what I used - adjust your baud rate to whatever you have chosen.
BIOS: Set external connector to COM1 Set SoL to run on COM2 Set to 57600 with RTS/CTS flow control
CentOS: ~]# cat /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf # This service maintains a getty on /dev/ttyS1.start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] #stop on starting runlevel [016]respawn #exec /sbin/agetty -h -L ttyS1 57600 vt100 #
# ttyS1 - agetty # # This service maintains a agetty on ttyS1.
stop on runlevel [S016] start on runlevel [23]
respawn exec agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 57600 vt100
~]# initctl start serial-ttyS1
$ ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -H 10.0.0.14 sol activate
Password: [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] ����������
10.0.0.14 is the DRAC IP address of the CentOS 6.3 box. It accepts the password and connects me to the console but then when I type I get those funny characters. Somehow an agetty is already being run:
root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 19200 vt100-nav
Is udev starting this up for me somehow? It says 19200 when everything I have read says it should be 115200. How do I change this? Some docs say I should create my own /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf containing:
# For IPMI serial console # ttyS1 - agetty # # This service maintains a agetty on ttyS1.
stop on runlevel [S016] start on runlevel [23]
respawn exec agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 115200 vt102
but when I do that I end up with two gettys, presumably fighting over the serial port, and the original is apparently holding onto it because I still can't connect and get a login prompt.
# ps -ef |grep agetty root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 19200 vt100-nav root 46118 1 0 16:13 ? 00:00:00 agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 115200 vt102
What is the right way to set this up?
You are on the right track.
I managed to fix my setup by trial and error. I stopped the serial getty with initctl and started again a few moments later and my setup has been behaving since.
Thanks!
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