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Date:      Tue, 26 May 2015 08:37:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Brandon Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@zoho.com>
Cc:        Trevor Roydhouse <trev@sentry.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel fails to boot after update
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1505260834050.26442@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150525174007.GA6272@WorkBox.Home>
References:  <20150525025607.GA1071@WorkBox.Home> <5562AC10.8040702@sentry.org> <20150525174007.GA6272@WorkBox.Home>

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On Mon, 25 May 2015, Brandon Wandersee 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.

This bit me also.  I usually do not rebuild port kernel modules until 
after a reboot in the new system, and this is the first time that there 
was a problem with that.  A boot from mfsBSD and temporarily commenting 
out vboxdrv_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf was the workaround.



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