-CURRENT userland regression

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:33:23PM -0800, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> On 02/20/13 14:25, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:21:50PM -0800, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> >> On 02/20/13 14:14, Xin Li wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> It seems that fresh -HEAD would give an unusable kernel that
> >>> overwrites screen buffer in a way making it impossible to debug.
> >>> Using an old world source to do 'make buildworld buildkernel' results
> >>> in a (mostly: I have some strange USB issue right now and still
> >>> looking for the cause) usable kernel.
> >>>
> >>> For now my known good combination is world 246858 with kernel 247057.
> >>>  I'm still trying to find out which revision have broke the stuff.
> >>
> >> I ran into this earlier today.  Selecting "safe mode" in the boot loader
> >> menu seems to work around the problem on my system.  Now I will not
> >> reboot until I see a fix for this in head :-)
> > 
> > How much 'the earlier today' is ?
> > I.e., could you specify some revisions ?
> > 
> 
> I upgraded from a month old (approx.) head to r247054 and ran into this
> problem.  I haven't tried bisecting as I need a running system right now.

BTW, does the loader fails, or is it the kernel where the problems start
appearing ?
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