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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:11:12 +0000
From:      Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   password prompt timeout (was: Installer asks for password and crashes downloading packages)
Message-ID:  <af10a123-f34e-4c69-a857-5ffe340b25b1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c63cde6a-1510-418e-985e-0817a7c47a79@gmail.com>
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On 10/01/2025 19:19, tzsz wrote:
> … restart every so often while waiting for the disk password. I have 
> never seen this before. 

I discussed this in FreeBSD Discord.

The timeout may be in Firmware, not a feature of FreeBSD. I see the same 
behaviour with an old HP ZBook 17 G2.

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205691>; in 2015 
naively suggested a shutdown (not a restart) after five minutes.

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/01/2025 19:19, tzsz wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:c63cde6a-1510-418e-985e-0817a7c47a79@gmail.com">…
      restart every so often while waiting for the disk password. I have
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      seen this before.
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    <p>I discussed this in FreeBSD Discord. </p>
    <p>The timeout may be in Firmware, not a feature of FreeBSD. I see
      the same behaviour with an old HP ZBook 17 G2. <br>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205691">&lt;https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205691&gt;</a>;
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