Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:34:17 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Atkinson <atkin901@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current? Message-ID: <4989EDB9.3010808@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <gmcoh8$fmc$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gmcoh8$fmc$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Mark Atkinson wrote: > I've updated several boxes over the last few days -- these are all > serial console units; and everytime I issue 'shutdown now' to > drop to single user, it hangs at the pathname prompt. Is anyone > else seeing this? > > example: > # shutdown now > Shutdown NOW! > shutdown: [pid 1021] > *** FINAL System shutdown message from root@dl385g5.pdsea.f5net.com *** > System going down IMMEDIATELY > > > Feb 4 10:34:48 <auth.notice> dl385g5 shutdown: shutdown by root: > > System shutdown time has arrived > Stopping inetd. > Stopping cron. > Stopping sshd. > Waiting for PIDS: 913. > Stopping ntpd. > Waiting for PIDS: 877. > Stopping devd. > Writing entropy file:. > . > Feb 4 10:34:55 <syslog.err> dl385g5 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: Try typing blind... I have the same symptoms on one of my systems when I drop to single user mode (it's the only one with a USB keyboard, dunno if it's coincidence or not). keypresses are not echoed anymore but command output is. Going back multi-user fix the console. I've not had time yet to track it down. Steph
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