From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 20:14: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C41437B688 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2114 invoked by uid 100); 23 Oct 2000 03:13:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14835.44272.884395.974156@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:13:52 -0500 (CDT) To: Bigbear Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with FreeBSD-5.0(Oct.20, 2000) In-Reply-To: <35350138@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bigbear writes: > Hello all: > when i update my system from freebsd 4.1 to freebsd 5.0(Oct. 20, 2000), all things are proper. but when the system start up, it hang when start elf ldconfig: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib > can you tell me why? /dev/random is hosed. You need to make sure you've got the random device configured (either in the kernel config, or via loader.conf), and just *wait* (over an hour isn't unheard of) for the first boot. Then always shutdown with the shutdown command, and avoid the "halt" and "reboot" commands. There may also be interactions with mfs if you're using that. If you're going to run -current (aka 5.0), you should be reading current@freebsd.org, which is where all the above information came from. You should also be prepared for problems like the above to happen on a regular basis. Expect systems that are unstable, flaky in other ways, or just flat don't boot (-current hasn't booted properly on my test system for two weeks now, though the other OS's it runs are all fine). All of which is why it is recommended that you only run -current if you're a developer, or for other "pressing" reasons.