Further info. It would appear it is not specifically prtconf at fault here, but rather attempting to access to the PROM info. I did a simple 'cat /dev/openprom' and got the same lockup.
Probably relevant are these messages that are displayed during system boot: [ 57.350511] envctrl: Initialized [gpio 0x72] [gpio 0x70] [adc 0x9e] [ 57.437588] envctrl: kenvctrld starting... [ 57.491574] /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,400000: OBP Flash, RD 1fff0400000[200000] WR 1fff0400000[200000] [ 57.635018] flash: probe of f0084fe0 failed with error -16 [ 57.707342] envctrl: probe of f0087710 failed with error -22 [ 57.782223] /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,800000: OBP Flash, RD 1fff0800000[200000] WR 1fff0800000[200000] [ 57.961760] flash: probe of f0085178 failed with error -16 Drew Marold - unstoppabled...@gmail.com Release Engineer, woodworker, photographer, Gentleman Adventurer Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unstoppabledrew/ Nothing looks worse on your outdoors resume than a list of the possible locations of your remains. On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message > has been received. > > Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > Eric Delaunay <delau...@debian.org> > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to 730...@bugs.debian.org. > > Please do not send mail to ow...@bugs.debian.org unless you wish > to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. > > -- > 730986: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730986 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems >