Reboot during startup with recent head

Joel Dahl joel at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 8 12:23:22 UTC 2012


On 08-11-2012 12:55, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 08/11/2012 10:45 Joel Dahl said the following:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I rebuilt head (r242605) in a VMware virtual machine a couple of days ago, and
> > now it won't boot anymore. The loader menu appears, the countdown starts, and boom,
> > reboot. I tried a fresh head (r242700) but the problem remains.
> > 
> > Going back to r242205 solves the problem, so this was introduced somewhere
> > between r242205 and r242605.
> > 
> > I managed to record the entire thing with my phone before I had to leave for
> > work today. You can see it here:
> > 
> >   http://mirror.vnode.se/upload/head-reboots.mov
> > 
> > Any ideas? Any specific revision I should try to back out?
> > 
> 
> Rather wild guess - try to back out the recent SMEP commit.

Well, it was a good guess. :-) I backed out revision 242433, rebuilt the kernel,
and now it boots again.

-- 
Joel


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