Encrypted Swap Problem with 12.0-CURRENT r324427

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 10 20:19:13 UTC 2017


On 10/10/2017 16:15, Thomas Laus wrote:
> I have been having some boot issues after upgrading to r324427 this
> week.  It gets to the step of accessing my Geli encrypted swap partition
> and then drops to the ddb> prompt.  Sometimes it works but mostly it
> does not.  Booting with r323984 is flawless.  Has anything been changed
> between these 2 revisions that would affect me?  Booting in single
> usermode works fine on r324427 but immediately goes to the ddb> prompt
> when terminating with a 'ctrl-d' to go into multi-user mode.
> 
> Is there anything that I might have missed in the UPDATING instruction
> that might cause this.  I don't have any errors on this partition that
> gpart status finds.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

Before the ddb> prompt there should be a message explaining what has
gone wrong to make it drops into the debugger. If it has scrolled off
the top of the screen, press scroll-lock and then you can use the arrow
keys to navigate back up into the buffer.

-- 
Allan Jude


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