From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 15 10:53:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE66237B66D for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netch@localhost by burka.carrier.kiev.ua id UUJ66610 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:52:59 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:52:59 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: (1) hanging up on ldconfig; (2) entropy file read failed Message-ID: <20001015205259.F11062@lucky.net> Reply-To: netch@lucky.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG System is: FreeBSD 5.0(13)-CURRENT-20001014 Three times, it hung up during boot after message: setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/li b trace from DDB said: .... [scgets and neighbours stuff] atbkd_isa_intr() ithd_loop() at ithd_loop+0x8a fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x1b After that, I booted it to single mode, and after "ldconfig" (without params) the hanging happened again. At 4th boot, it booted normally, hence I came too late with idea to read kernel debugging section of handbook;| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About entropy file. At my home system, /var is not at / (it is symlink to /usr/var). /etc/rc reads entropy file before mounting all filesystems, and it failed and fell back to cat'ing /etc/* ;| Should it be better to read entropy file after mounting all filesystems? Imho it is incorrect to place it on root FS. /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message