Re: after trivial update, 15.0 ARM64 system no longer boots

Are you sure that the system isn't actually booting or are you saying
that because you get no console output after going to userland?  It's
possible that /etc/ttys is not in sync with your console configuration
in loader.conf.  If that happened, nothing from /etc/rc would print to
console during boot and you wouldn't get a login prompt, but
networking and the like would still work.  If you need the console to
access it (e.g. no sshd is configured) you can try booting into
single-user and look at /etc/ttys from there.  If you can't actually
reach single-user mode then the problem is something else.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:57 AM Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> wrote:
>
> hi lists,
>
> i have a FreeBSD 15.0/arm64 system, an RPi4, which was previously
> running 15.0 with pkgbase.  i rebuilt main on my pkg server and updated
> the RPi with 'pkg update', which only included ~2 commits neither of
> which seemed like they had anything to do with booting, but after the
> update, the system no longer boots.
>
> the problem seems to be a hang during kernel initialisation:
>
> https://www.le-fay.org/tmp/30d/9fE0NG.jpeg
>
> i am not really an expert on either ARM64 in general or on the RPi
> hardware in particular.  could anyone suggest how i could debug this
> problem, e.g. to get more information about why the system won't finish
> booting?
>
>         thanks, lexi.