Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:02:04 GMT From: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/159775: handling of autoboot_delay="-1" has changed in 9.0 Message-ID: <201108150102.p7F124Zr031652@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201108150110.p7F1A9iF025911@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 159775
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: handling of autoboot_delay="-1" has changed in 9.0
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 15 01:10:08 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Colin Percival
>Release: 9.0-BETA1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1
>Description:
The handling of autoboot_delay="-1" has changed with the new boot loader scripts.
In /boot/defaults/loader.conf, the old behaviour is documented:
#autoboot_delay="10" # Delay in seconds before autobooting,
# set to -1 if you don't want user to be
# allowed to interrupt autoboot process and
# escape to the loader prompt, set to
# "NO" to disable autobooting
In the menu.4th man page, the new behaviour is documented:
autoboot_delay
Number of seconds menu-display will wait before executing
menu_timeout_command (boot by default) unless a key is
pressed. If set to ``NO'' (case-insensitive) or ``-1'',
menu-display will wait for user input and never execute
menu_timeout_command. Default is ``10''. See loader(8)
for additional information.
Note that "user can't interrupt boot process" and "menu-display will never execute menu_timeout_command" are nearly exact opposite behaviours.
>How-To-Repeat:
Set autoboot_delay="-1" on 9.0-BETA1. Be astonished by what happens.
>Fix:
Either change menu.4th to restore the old behaviour, or update the comments in /boot/defaults/loader.conf (and possibly add an entry to the release notes to warn users).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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