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

[Yamagi Burmeister]

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.

1. Set 'keybell="visual"'
2. service syscons onestart
3. shutdown -r now

So far I haven't tested vt(4), nor if the VESA mode of syscons has any
effect on the probability.

Regards,
Yamagi

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