password prompt timeout (was: Installer asks for password and crashes downloading packages)

In reply to: tzsz : "Installer asks for password and crashes downloading packages"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:11:12 UTC

On 10/01/2025 19:19, tzsz wrote:
> … restart every so often while waiting for the disk password. I have 
> never seen this before. 

I discussed this in FreeBSD Discord.

The timeout may be in Firmware, not a feature of FreeBSD. I see the same 
behaviour with an old HP ZBook 17 G2.

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205691> in 2015 
naively suggested a shutdown (not a restart) after five minutes.