From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 21:08:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABC81065693 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78ADC8FC33 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUoyV-00044t-Lx for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:07:59 +0000 Received: from mulderlab.f5.com ([205.229.151.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:07:59 +0000 Received: from atkin901 by mulderlab.f5.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:07:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Mark Atkinson Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:48 -0800 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4989EDB9.3010808@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mulderlab.f5.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news Subject: Re: problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:08:05 -0000 Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > Mark Atkinson wrote: >> I've updated several boxes over the last few days -- these are all >> serial console units; and everytime I issue 'shutdown now' to >> drop to single user, it hangs at the pathname prompt. Is anyone >> else seeing this? > Try typing blind... I have the same symptoms on one of my systems when I > drop to single user mode (it's the only one with a USB keyboard, dunno > if it's coincidence or not). keypresses are not echoed anymore but > command output is. Going back multi-user fix the console. I've not had > time yet to track it down. Thanks, I tried this on a box, but it doesn't seem to work. (blindly typing '', then wait and then 'exit') booting to single user works fine from the loader. The kernel is still 'up' since it responds to icmp, but without any console output, it's hard to say what state it's in. -- Mark Atkinson atkin901@yahoo.com (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired);