From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 13:43:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B3E1065672 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:43:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from zerofail.com (gatekeeper1.zerofail.com [208.71.11.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76B18FC1E for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:43:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from telcobridges.com by freebsd.org (zerofail.com) (SecurityGateway 1.1.2) with SMTP id SG001534698.MSG for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:33:30 -0500 Received: from leia.telcobridges.com ([208.94.105.59]) by telcobridges.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:33:30 -0500 Message-ID: <498AEAAA.8060607@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:33:30 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090127) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Depaoli References: <4989EDB9.3010808@FreeBSD.org> <83e5fb980902041300k324cef73od2cf2a9b5ec553d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <83e5fb980902041300k324cef73od2cf2a9b5ec553d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2009 13:33:30.0539 (UTC) FILETIME=[5575AFB0:01C98796] X-SGHeloLookup-Result: hardfail smtp.helo=telcobridges.com (does not match 208.71.8.41) X-SGOP-RefID: str=0001.0A09020A.498AEAAA.01B9,ss=1,fgs=0 (_st=1 _vt=0 _iwf=0) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mark Atkinson Subject: Re: problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:43:38 -0000 Diego Depaoli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stephane E. Potvin 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