There's a typo in the regexp in /etc/init.d/serial, line 18: grep -v "^#\|^ \|^$|^stty" /etc/serial.conf | while read device args and it should be: grep -v "^#\|^ \|^$\|^stty" /etc/serial.conf | while read device args (the last | isn't escaped) Without that, the loop matches all the blank lines in serial.conf, so during boot the console is flooded with 8-10 setserial help messages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/serial start 2. 3. Actual Results: setserial is run with no args several times, lots of junk on the screen Expected Results: nothing
Aleady fixed about 15 months ago: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/setserial/files/serial-2.17-r4?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 Just re-emerge the package *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 206699 ***
