From nobody Sun Aug 17 13:14:33 2025 X-Original-To: current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4c4bsl1nFNz64lTd for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:14:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from mx.catwhisker.org (mx.catwhisker.org [107.204.234.170]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4c4bsk48SVz3ZdK for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of david@catwhisker.org designates 107.204.234.170 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=david@catwhisker.org Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.18.1/8.18.1) with ESMTP id 57HDEXAZ004065 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:14:33 GMT (envelope-from david@albert.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.18.1/8.18.1/Submit) id 57HDEX05004064 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:14:33 -0700 From: David Wolfskill To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading kernel seems to fail at main-n279667-7ce07c41423d Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: David Wolfskill , current@freebsd.org References: List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8/eg1kBz647iUzug" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spamd-Bar: ----- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.40 / 15.00]; SIGNED_PGP(-2.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.20)[multipart/signed,text/plain]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:107.204.234.170:c]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[david]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7018, ipnet:107.192.0.0/12, country:US]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[catwhisker.org]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[current@freebsd.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROMTLD(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[current@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4c4bsk48SVz3ZdK --8/eg1kBz647iUzug Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:07:45AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > ... > After updating sources to main-n279667-7ce07c41423d this morning, > "buildworld" &c. was also uneventful, but the following reboot did not > actually complete: it brought up the loader menu as normal, but seems > (because it's a bit hard to tell what's going on when the screen is > blank) to fail to load and transfer control from the loader to the > kernel. Eventually, it appears to time out & (attempt a) reboot again; > absent human intervention, I expect the cycle would repeat indefinitely. > .... On the second laptop, I tried escaping to the loader prompt. I then: * Verified that nothing was loaded initially * Successully loaded /boot/kernel/kernel * Verified that "lsmod" showed that something was now loaded * Issued "boot" The machine immediately rebooted. Booting kernel.old succeeds. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Of course firing the statistician will force the statistics to conform! See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --8/eg1kBz647iUzug Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEARYKAH0WIQSTLzOSbomIK53fjFliipiWhXYx5QUCaKHVuF8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0OTMy RjMzOTI2RTg5ODgyQjlEREY4QzU5NjI4QTk4OTY4NTc2MzFFNQAKCRBiipiWhXYx 5XNuAQDS05H2NcqVGwZPXFksz6LqtMaZS6oSIC09f4A1TrE9ZQD9GxSxoCw9bG/V cHveyLwhB0q+4I1Um3gg0jNiad/tfQ8= =KQSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8/eg1kBz647iUzug--