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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>
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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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