Re: problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current?

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?
 
> 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). keypresses are not echoed anymore but
> command output is. Going back multi-user fix the console. I've not had
> time yet to track it down.

Thanks, I tried this on a box, but it doesn't seem to work.

(blindly typing '<enter>', then wait and then 'exit')

booting to single user works fine from the loader.

The kernel is still 'up' since it responds to icmp, but without any
console output, it's hard to say what state it's in.

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Mark Atkinson
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