Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:35:39 -0400 From: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>, Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current hangs during boot Message-ID: <20001022193539.A38460@bsdwins.com> In-Reply-To: <20001022154231.C4742@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:42:31PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010220956440.32758-100000@arnold.neland.dk> <39F2A1D0.2FC92123@CoreBit.com> <20001022154231.C4742@dragon.nuxi.com>
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----- David O'Brien's Original Message -----
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 04:14:08PM +0800, Donny Lee wrote:
> > with the mfs enable, it hangs there right after FILESYSTEM
> > checking, and with random_load set to YES, it hangs at ldconfig.
>
> mount_mfs is blocking on "rndblk". Our /dev/*random is fubar'ed *again*.
I saw this the other day...
I've been examining the mfs code, and I'm not really sure why
it needs to use random values...
Anyone know the history on the '#ifdef FSIRAND' code?
-john
ps: break out of the boot sequence, 'ls -al /etc/ > /dev/random'
and then 'exit' will get around this and other problems, but
requires hands on reboots.
>
> --
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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