shutdown(8) not working after upgrade to 10.1-BETA3

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:48 AM, Yamagi Burmeister <lists at yamagi.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:29:29 +0200
> Yamagi Burmeister <lists at yamagi.org> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, some more data points. As suggest in the thread linked below I've
>> tried to revert r261997 (MFC of r259441) and *tada* shutdown(8) is
>> working again. I think I'm hitting the issue discussed here:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2014-February/080880.html
>> 
>> CCing marcel@ as the author of r259441 and jilles@ who brought up the
>> problem.
> 
> Okay, another piece to the puzzle: I wondered why I'm the only one
> complaining and digged somewhat further into it. The "problem" on my
> machine is 'keybell="visual"' in /etc/rc.conf. With it the probability
> for shutdown(8) and / or init(8) deadlocking is nearly 100%. Without it
> I wasn't able to reproduce it once in 20 reboots. This gives a way to
> more or less reliable reproduce the problem.

Hi Yamagi,

Thanks for triaging the problem. I'll see what I can
come up with. Jilles too has provided valuable info,
so hopefully we can come up with a good fix -- one
that makes everyone happy.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net


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