sysctl(?) problem on boot in 8-STABLE

[Mikolaj Golub]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 10:56:22 -0400 Jeff Blank wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I upgraded an 8-STABLE box to r206119 and am now unable to boot
> multi-user.  I found that it hangs at line 58/59 of
> /etc/rc.d/initrandom:
>
> ( ps -fauxww; sysctl -a; date; df -ib; dmesg; ps -fauxww ) \
>                     | dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null
>
> when I run each of these commands by hand, I get only as far as
> 'sysctl -a', which seems to exit normally but leaves my keyboard
> unresponsive (actually acting like I'm leaning on the <enter> key).
> more digging reveals 'sysctl dev.uart' to be what triggers it.

kern/143040 looks similar.

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Mikolaj Golub