Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 11:42:34 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Brandon Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@zoho.com> Cc: Trevor Roydhouse <trev@sentry.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel fails to boot after update Message-ID: <CAN6yY1u%2B1J%2BSU8hTNoP9F3ndnA1NERxzaYQ2T72dqaTCF6XA_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150525174007.GA6272@WorkBox.Home> References: <20150525025607.GA1071@WorkBox.Home> <5562AC10.8040702@sentry.org> <20150525174007.GA6272@WorkBox.Home>
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On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Wandersee < brandon.wandersee@zoho.com> wrote: > On 05/25, Trevor Roydhouse wrote: > > > > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-options.html > > > > Cheers, > > TREV. > > > > Thanks for the link, Trevor. I enabled DDB in the kernel ("options DDB") in > order to prevent the reboot and learned that the VirtualBox kernel module > was > causing the hold-up (I use VirtualBox very often, so I load the module at > start-up). I'd forgotten to *rebuild the module after updating the > kernel.* I > feel foolish for having forgotten that---I've been using VirtualBox for > years---but all is well now. Thanks for the pointers, and sorry for > cluttering > the list with such an inane issue. The quote in my signature seems fitting > in > this case. Anyway, take care, all. > > - Brandon > Put "PORTS_MODULES=emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod" into /etc/src.conf and it will be rebuilt when the kernel is built. Add others ports that install kernel modules as well. Space delimit multiple modules. (The documentation is not too clear about multiple modules. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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