i'm using a serial console on my sparc, and when it boots up as each thing starts i get the "[ ok ]" thingy on the left side of the screen, intermixed with the other text. after poking around a bit it looks like terminal size can't be determined over a serial console. (i checked a solaris console with stty, and it said rows and columns were 0 as well, so it's not a linux bug). i attempted to fix it in /sbin/rc by setting the size manually if it was unknown (doing stty rows and stty cols), but this didn't seem to catch on for the first few lines, and got reset when it started the runlevel 3 stuff. so instead i changed a few lines in /etc/init.d/functions.sh like so: COLS="$(getcols ${COLS})" to if [ "$COLS" = "0 0" ]; then COLS=80 stty cols 80 &>/dev/null stty rows 24 &>/dev/null else COLS="$(getcols ${COLS})" fi this works perfectly so far.
Fixed on CVS, thanks.
