problems dropping to single user from multi in recent -current?

[Stephane E. Potvin]

Mark Atkinson wrote:
> I've updated several boxes over the last few days -- these are all
> serial console units; and everytime I issue 'shutdown now' to 
> drop to single user, it hangs at the pathname prompt.  Is anyone 
> else seeing this?
> 
> example:
> # shutdown now
> Shutdown NOW!
> shutdown: [pid 1021]
> *** FINAL System shutdown message from root at dl385g5.pdsea.f5net.com ***
> System going down IMMEDIATELY
> 
> 
> Feb  4 10:34:48 <auth.notice> dl385g5 shutdown: shutdown by root:
> 
> System shutdown time has arrived
> Stopping inetd.
> Stopping cron.
> Stopping sshd.
> Waiting for PIDS: 913.
> Stopping ntpd.
> Waiting for PIDS: 877.
> Stopping devd.
> Writing entropy file:.
> .
> Feb  4 10:34:55 <syslog.err> dl385g5 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 

Try typing blind... I have the same symptoms on one of my systems when I 
drop to single user mode (it's the only one with a USB keyboard, dunno 
if it's coincidence or not). keypresses are not echoed anymore but 
command output is. Going back multi-user fix the console. I've not had 
time yet to track it down.

Steph