On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 14:32 -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > On 2019-09-24 11:58, Pete Wright wrote: > > > > darn, and they didn't give you any additional information in the > > messages buffer, or generate a core file? > > > > There were no messages in the syslog and no other log that showed > anything after killing the console. On my working BEADM boot > environment, the next message after starting ntp is: > > configuring vt: blanktime > > This message never showed in the syslog on any of the 'black screens'. > I looked over the changes made between r352057 and r352064 and nothing > 'vt' related popped up. I have not built anything between these 2 > releases and probably should in order to help narrow the problem. I > originally updated to r352304 and killed my system and was reverting > back toward r352057 by splitting the difference by half. The problem > was still there in r352064, so I stopped and asked for help. > > This problem did not generate a core and building GENERIC with the DEBUG > symbols did not add any more information. > > Tom
On my system, a whole lotta stuff happens between ntpd and syscons (the thing that configures blanktime). Try setting rc_debug=YES in rc.conf, that should write more info to syslog about what's happening between ntpd and the lockup point. -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
