From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 07:44:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496B4106564A for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064038FC1B for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC25F70B992 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.236.31.96] (helo=zelda.local) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1L4sb5-00043s-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:44:33 +0100 From: Martin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081125084433.568cc876@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: <20081119080741.6197009a@zelda.local> References: <20081119003820.2bea8117@zelda.local> <20081119080741.6197009a@zelda.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de X-Sender: nakal@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/MsaXbpsTAdKlnTKgUbSvYclOg83hKJSOCd/9X mRVjvvPu9J3lb9TGIqDlHbcwLaoZkrO7hAwwAN5LhiRSPW2hof ZAGgL/S80= Subject: nfs unreachable: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:44:37 -0000 Hi, besides the wrong order of initializing syslogd in rc system when IPv6 has been enabled, I have found a second similar problem with the rc system on my client desktops. When you physically detach your NIC or make wireless access point inaccessible on which you have an nfs mounted file system (in fstab). The system will prevent you to get access to /dev/console and won't even start in single user mode. This is extremely annoying. Nov 25 07:58:11 zelda init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Nov 25 07:58:11 zelda init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not permitted Nov 25 07:58:42 zelda init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not permitted Nov 25 08:00:13 zelda last message repeated 3 times Nov 25 08:01:15 zelda last message repeated 2 times -- Martin