Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 03:14:37 +0000 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Brandon Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@zoho.com> Cc: Trevor Roydhouse <trev@sentry.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel fails to boot after update Message-ID: <CAEJt7haFAQZu8OF%2BoC1tO5HbNGQe=iQ2PbzW0xDTXBSa7J5UBw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1u%2B1J%2BSU8hTNoP9F3ndnA1NERxzaYQ2T72dqaTCF6XA_w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20150525025607.GA1071@WorkBox.Home> <5562AC10.8040702@sentry.org> <20150525174007.GA6272@WorkBox.Home> <CAN6yY1u%2B1J%2BSU8hTNoP9F3ndnA1NERxzaYQ2T72dqaTCF6XA_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:42 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Wandersee < > brandon.wandersee@zoho.com> wrote: > > > On 05/25, Trevor Roydhouse wrote: > > > > > > > > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-options.html > > > > > > Cheers, > > > TREV. > > > > > > > Thanks for the link, Trevor. I enabled DDB in the kernel ("options DDB") > in > > order to prevent the reboot and learned that the VirtualBox kernel module > > was > > causing the hold-up (I use VirtualBox very often, so I load the module at > > start-up). I'd forgotten to *rebuild the module after updating the > > kernel.* I > > feel foolish for having forgotten that---I've been using VirtualBox for > > years---but all is well now. Thanks for the pointers, and sorry for > > cluttering > > the list with such an inane issue. The quote in my signature seems > fitting > > in > > this case. Anyway, take care, all. > > > > - Brandon > > > > Put "PORTS_MODULES=emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod" into /etc/src.conf and > it will be rebuilt when the kernel is built. Add others ports that install > kernel modules as well. Space delimit multiple modules. (The documentation > is not too clear about multiple modules. > Unfortunately, this does not work for locked ports. However, the kmod ports must be locked, or else they would be upgraded by 'pkg upgrade' to some unusable version. Maybe PORTS_MODULES should handle locked ports. -- > Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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