hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

[Ken Chen]

Thanks!

It's a production server, I will arrange some day to try.


2011/2/18 Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>

> > From: Ken Chen <ken73.chen at gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:12:13 +0800
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> >
> > I have tried. It can not be interrupted by CTRL-C.
> >
> > 2011/2/17 Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us>
> >
> > > Ok, likely you can bypass the problem by hitting Ctrl-C.
> > >
> > > Once you get kernel and userland updated make sure that you get /etc/
> > > updated as well and you should be fine.
> > >
> > >
> > > hth,
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 02/16/2011 23:24, Ken Chen wrote:
> > >
> > >> It's first reboot with 8.1 kernel.
> > >>
> > >> nextboot -k GENERIC
> > >> shutdown -r now
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 2011/2/17 Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us <mailto:
> dougb at dougbarton.us>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    On 02/16/2011 21:56, Ken Chen wrote:
> > >>
> > >>        Hello All,
> > >>
> > >>        I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by
> > >>        'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it
> holds-on
> > >> at
> > >>        ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in
> > >>        /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    Did you update /etc after updating the binaries, or is this the
> > >>    first reboot after freebsd-update installs the new kernel?
> > >>
>
> While the last message to appear is "Entropy harvesting:", that may or
> may not be the cause of the hang. It really should continue after a ^C
> if that was the issue.
>
> Can you try a ^T to see what is really running? Or, if that does not
> tell you, try adding rc_debug="YES" to rc.conf. This will produce a LOT
> of output, but you probably are only interested in the end of it.
>
> Doug is WAY better at the rc issues than I am, but at least this should
> provide a bit more information.
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