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Date:      Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:33:30 -0500
From:      "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mark Atkinson <atkin901@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current?
Message-ID:  <498AEAAA.8060607@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <83e5fb980902041300k324cef73od2cf2a9b5ec553d5@mail.gmail.com>
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Diego Depaoli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stephane E. Potvin <sepotvin@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 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?
> Same here
>> 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).
> It's a coincidence, I do not have USB keyboard

You're right, I could have sworn that I experienced this only on my
system with a USB keyboard but after trying yesterday, I have the issue
on all my systems. Can you drop into DDB when this happens?

Steph




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