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Date:      Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:58:48 -0800
From:      Mark Atkinson <atkin901@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current?
Message-ID:  <gmcoh8$fmc$1@ger.gmane.org>

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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?

example:
# shutdown now
Shutdown NOW!
shutdown: [pid 1021]
*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@dl385g5.pdsea.f5net.com ***
System going down IMMEDIATELY


Feb  4 10:34:48 <auth.notice> dl385g5 shutdown: shutdown by root:

System shutdown time has arrived
Stopping inetd.
Stopping cron.
Stopping sshd.
Waiting for PIDS: 913.
Stopping ntpd.
Waiting for PIDS: 877.
Stopping devd.
Writing entropy file:.
.
Feb  4 10:34:55 <syslog.err> dl385g5 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 





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