From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 22:39:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13382 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13374 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.6/8.6.5) with SMTP id WAA19406; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:39:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701290639.WAA19406@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Simon Shapiro cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:34:33 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:39:10 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > 4. Shutdown questions: >> > >> > a. When init goes to single user, prompts, asking for a shell. >> > You press ENTER and it sits on ``(.???msg - Cannot exactly >> > remember) not found'' >> > ^C will get you a prompt, most of the time. Sometimes you get >> > a fast roll talking about some malloc() failure. Sometimes a >> > ^C will stop it, sometimes it will not. >> >> David Greenman has been the only one by now who also reported such a >> behaviour. > >So now there is a confirmation... Actually, no, the problem I had was when rebooting, and the symptom there is an apparantly messed up baud rate for a short while (I'm using a serial console). The problem above sounds like something more serious...and not one that I've seen. It might be an indication of a hardware problem. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project