Re: Getty stopped on rpi3 serial console serial console

On Aug 18, 2026, at 8:29 AM, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I just noticed that an RPi3 running 
> FreeBSD ns2.zefox.net 14.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC arm64 aarch64 1404000 1404000
> has stopped putting a login prompt on the serial console.
> 
> Ssh logins work normally, there are no other visible anomalies,
> uptime reports  8:25AM  up 56 days, 17:22, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> For immediate purposes this is harmless, but might it be indicative of some
> deeper problem? It's a binary-only installation maintained using freebsd-update.
> 
> Thanks for reading, and any insights.
> 
> bob prohaska
> 
> 

I have these lines in /boot/loader.conf on pi3:

boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"

See if that helps (though I don't connect anything to
the serial line + mine run 15.x). Also check /etc/ttys
as others have suggested. You should see a line like

ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"      vt100   onifconsole secure