On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartm...@walstatt.org> wrote:
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> Just updated some boxes to 12-CURRENT r338057 and I face a very strange 
> behaviour:
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> on non-UEFI booting boxes (older Fujitsu and Dell servers from 2008/2009, 
> PCengine APU
> 2C4), logging in via ssh reveals broken output: even top does show nothing, 
> the box is
> stuck. Calling vi(1) on some files does alos freeze the terminal - no 
> response, nothing.
> On the PCengine, also applications like Asterisk do not work anymore - not 
> output on the
> console. The program is running, but stopped servicing. Only the serial 
> console to some
> of the "ssd-brain-dead" systems work, sshd is dead. This isn't the case on 
> UEFI boxes
> with the very same revision (r338057).
>
> Is this a coincidence or is this/could this related to the switch to LUA 
> loader?
>

This is probably a coincidence. Most of the important stuff that
happens in loader is independent of the interpreter that's built into
it, the exceptions being that the interpreter is tasked with reading
loader.conf(5) and sets up some ACPI stuff on x86 BIOS boots.
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