Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:01:55 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to interrupt hung boot process? Message-ID: <1234594915.7816.10.camel@gateway> In-Reply-To: <200902210632.GAA06072@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <200902210632.GAA06072@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:32 +0000, Dieter wrote: > Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. > A shell script called from rc.local hung. > (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works > fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) > Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the > keyboard. They echo, but nothing will interrupt > the hung process. I had to press the reset button. > > Back in the day, typing ^C on the console would > interrupt the boot process and give you a shell > prompt. How do I interrupt the boot process > with FreeBSD? > > Is there a way to have getty start before running > rc.local? If a shell script traps the signals, there is nothing you can do except by calling a SIGKILL to the PID, which requires the system to be in Multi-User Mode.
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