Re: Questions

From: The Backroomer <thebackroomer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:13:08 UTC
Also why is the root user using all of my CPU from the kernel or something
my ethernet also keeps going down in 16.0-CURRENT fully up to date kde
plasma root pid 11 %CPU 3177 %MEM 0.0 VSZ RSS 512 TT - STAT RNL STARTED
00:30 TIME 490:51.11 COMMAND [idle]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2026, 23:10 Ruslan Zalata, <rz@fabmicro.ru> wrote:

>
> On 2026-10-09 02:10, Céleste Ornato wrote:
>
> > A more difficult situation would be a broken bootloader config; the
> > best
> > thing you can do is to just avoid touching that file too much,
>
> I admit, fixing bootloader config is no much harder. One can choose "3.
> Escape to loader prompt" from boot menu, then type:
>
> unload
> set/unset <your problematic variable from loader.conf>
> boot /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> Once booted, fix broken loader.conf and reboot. :-)
>
> BTW, can we instruct loader on its prompt what config file to use for
> this boot ? I'm facing this issue quite often toying with different
> kernel modules, sometimes I want to be able to choose what config loader
> uses instead of default.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Ruslan
>
>
>