10.1 : release : freebsd-update : fetch + install : first reboot screwup!

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On 2014-12-19 09:26, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Fri 2014-12-19 08:29:32 UTC+0530, Mayuresh Kathe (mayuresh at kathe.in) 
> wrote:
> 
>> finally got freebsd 10.1 release to run on my machine, it was a simple
>> matter of disabling 'uefi' and do a non-uefi install.
>> 
>> as always, the first thing done post install was "freebsd-update 
>> fetch",
>> followed by "freebsd-update install" and then issued a "reboot".
>> 
>> during shutdown, the system just froze at "all buffers synced".
>> had to issue a hard reboot which raised various issues related to disk
>> not cleanly unmounted during previous shutdown.
>> 
>> went ahead and re-installed the system thrice, just to confirm that 
>> this
>> problem is repeatable, and yes, it is.
>> 
>> any work arounds?
> 
> There's a thread about this on freebsd-stable:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-December/081211.html
> 
> Also an entry on Bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195458


thanks for this andrew, much appreciate the pointers.

best regards,

~mayuresh