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Date:      Mon, 7 Mar 2016 07:31:42 -0500
From:      Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
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Re: Odd hang during boot on RPI2 for 2 days now

Sounds like it's trying to harvest entropy from keystrokes for
randomness.  Just guessing.  This isn't a new installation that hasn't
finished building ssl keys or something by any chance?  I've seen
mouse movements used for that.

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>    1. Re: Odd hang during boot on RPI2 for 2 days now (Jukka Ukkonen)
>    2. Re: Odd hang during boot on RPI2 for 2 days now
>       (Hans Petter Selasky)
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:54:48 +0200
> From: Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Odd hang during boot on RPI2 for 2 days now
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> Continuing where I previously left with this problem...
> When I set boot_verbose=1 in loader.conf I got a little
> more information before the poor RPI2 simply froze.
> Now the last shown line was...
>
> random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from ukbd0
>
> If I disconnect the USB keyboard and then reconnect it,
> the kernel prints the normal detach and attach messages,
> once again returns back to printing the "random: ..."
> line shown above, and freezes again.
>
> --jau
>
>
>
> On 03/04/16 16:31, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> A couple of days ago I rebuilt 11-current for my RPI2.
>> For some odd and still unexplained reason it started
>> hanging after it had found the USB keyboard during the
>> auto-configure. I have tried "svn update" a few times
>> since the problem started, but apparently there has
>> been no patch to this. The latest svn version which I
>> have tried is 296383.
>> I attach the dmesg.boot from the last known good boot.
>> It shows the last known properly booting system was
>> 11.0-CURRENT r296310.
>> I have also marked the place where the boot now hangs
>> as follows ...
>>
>> ...
>> kbd1 at ukbd0
>> ***
>> smsc0: chip 0xec00, rev. 0002
>> ...
>>
>> Everything before the "***" mark seems to work just fine.
>> At the mark all progress stops and none of the messages
>> normally seen after this point are shown.
>>
>> Has something changed perhaps in a manner which could
>> cause this hang?
>>
>> --jau
>>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:22:30 +0100
> From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
> To: Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com>, freebsd-arm
> 	<freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Odd hang during boot on RPI2 for 2 days now
> Message-ID: <56DD6476.80603@selasky.org>
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> On 03/07/16 11:54, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
>>
>> Continuing where I previously left with this problem...
>> When I set boot_verbose=1 in loader.conf I got a little
>> more information before the poor RPI2 simply froze.
>> Now the last shown line was...
>>
>> random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from ukbd0
>>
>> If I disconnect the USB keyboard and then reconnect it,
>> the kernel prints the normal detach and attach messages,
>> once again returns back to printing the "random: ..."
>> line shown above, and freezes again.
>>
>
> Then I think the init process is waiting for something. Would you manage
> to press CTRL+T in the console and see what is printed?
>
> --HPS
>
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