Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:09:51 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: lausts@acm.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting anything after r352057 kills console Message-ID: <9ce93cb3283ee900eb63393f7bdb747001743cad.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a377f6d1-840f-57d7-f410-d30b4397a699@acm.org> References: <11db909b-57ee-b452-6a17-90ec2765c36e@acm.org> <18332.1569268545@critter.freebsd.dk> <20190923213222.GA57158@mail.laus.org> <0eb339eb-5eb2-b75b-7fef-c22d02b824af@nomadlogic.org> <93d9c5bf-8269-ba44-655e-f079b311e29c@acm.org> <06a455da-1c7a-84f3-f4e4-64b50ca769bb@nomadlogic.org> <a377f6d1-840f-57d7-f410-d30b4397a699@acm.org>
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On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 14:32 -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > On 2019-09-24 11:58, Pete Wright wrote: > > > > darn, and they didn't give you any additional information in the > > messages buffer, or generate a core file? > > > > There were no messages in the syslog and no other log that showed > anything after killing the console. On my working BEADM boot > environment, the next message after starting ntp is: > > configuring vt: blanktime > > This message never showed in the syslog on any of the 'black screens'. > I looked over the changes made between r352057 and r352064 and nothing > 'vt' related popped up. I have not built anything between these 2 > releases and probably should in order to help narrow the problem. I > originally updated to r352304 and killed my system and was reverting > back toward r352057 by splitting the difference by half. The problem > was still there in r352064, so I stopped and asked for help. > > This problem did not generate a core and building GENERIC with the DEBUG > symbols did not add any more information. > > Tom On my system, a whole lotta stuff happens between ntpd and syscons (the thing that configures blanktime). Try setting rc_debug=YES in rc.conf, that should write more info to syslog about what's happening between ntpd and the lockup point. -- Ian
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