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Date:      Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:59:26 +0200
From:      Mattia Rossi <mattia.rossi.mate@gmail.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Alignment Fault 1 - still/again
Message-ID:  <5224536E.20801@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.w2rz8zxc8527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl>
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Am 02.09.2013 10:52, schrieb Ronald Klop:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:47:40 +0200, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 16:43 +0200, Mattia Rossi wrote:
>>> > That LOR is harmless (at least, I've been seeing it for a while).
>>> Ah, good... didn't even think i could simply continue...
>>> Well.. back being stuck at "entropy harvesting interrupts ethernet
>>> point_to_point" without being able to ^C
>>> >
>>> > It's not correct that EABI only changes things for userspace -- quite
>>> > the opposite, you can't run a mismatched kernel and userspace (as the
>>> > init failure points out).
>>> Sorry, what I meant was: for me it only gets stuck when running
>>> userspace tools.
>>> With or without EABI the kernel (now) loads fine)
>>> >
>>> > I still can't get EABI to work on my dreamplug, every time I try I 
>>> get
>>> > more confusing symptoms (the latest --  trying to view a manpage 
>>> gave a
>>> > "too many symbols" error trying to launch man).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> I never get beyond "entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet 
>>> point_to_point"
>>>
>>> :(
>>
>> That's a bit strange, that everyone can ^C out of that hang except you.
>> You can get past it by editing /etc/rc.d/initrandom and commenting out
>> the df and ps commands (just comment out all the initrandom kickstart
>> stuff, it doesn't generate any real entropy anyway).
>>
>> -- Ian
>
> I can't ^C out of it either. I can only continue booting by commenting 
> out the call to better_than_nothing().
> Only after a boot to multi-user magically works (ones in a thousand 
> times) I can ^C hanging programs.
>

Well, that gives me hope that I might actually be able to boot into 
multi-user if I try often enough :-)
Next step will be trying to debug df and ps if possible with some good 
old printf's. Maybe that gives us some clue about what's happening here.

Cheers,

Mat


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