Silent reboots in head @r248550 starting xdm with x11/nvidia-driver

[David Wolfskill]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:24:30PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 20/03/2013 19:18 David Wolfskill said the following:
> > Yes; src.conf includes the line:
> > 
> > PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver
> 
> Have you double-checked that this actually works according to your intention?
> ...

Until I started specifying that, the attempt to load nvidia.ko would
fail (under head), as the module resides in /boot/modules.

Note that I have the (single) drive on this machine split into 4
bootable slices, each of which has its own root and /usr file system.
(Slice 4 has the partitions that are "common" to all images -- one for
swap; another for the /var FS; one for local SVN mirrors mounted on
/repo; one for miscellaneous stuff, such as home directories, ports
tree, and /usr/local, which I mount under /common.  There's another FS
called /bkp, but it's not actually used for much usually.)

Since /usr/local is the same FS regardless of which slice is booted
(thanks to symlinks), I build the ports under stable/9 (which is on
slice 1).  On the other hand, head is on slice 4.  So building
x11/nvidia-driver would populate /usr/local/lib and slice 1's
/boot/modules, but would not populate any other slice's /boot/*.

This is something I have been doing (in the general sense of multiple
bootable slices) for over a decade, and have been doing it for
x11/nvidia-driver (in particular) for a few years.

I have been tracking stable/9 & head daily for quite a while (years
-- note the iteration number in the uname output), and after the
smoke-test for stable/9, I update all installed ports that have
been updated in the last 24 hrs. -- daily.

Peace,
david
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