Kernel fails to boot after update

[Henry Hu]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:42 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Wandersee <
> brandon.wandersee at 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.
>

Unfortunately, this does not work for locked ports.
However, the kmod ports must be locked, or else they would be upgraded by
'pkg upgrade' to some unusable version.
Maybe PORTS_MODULES should handle locked ports.

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> Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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