On 2016-Oct-04 11:14:38 +1000, Andy Farkas <chuzzwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >Is it just me or.... > >Step 1: boot >Step 2: login as root >Step 3: type "w<enter>" * >Step 4: type "shutdown now; logout<enter>" >Step 5: press <enter> at the 'Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for >/bin/sh:' prompt >Step 6: type "reboot<enter>" >Step 7: get a Panic: "Going nowhere without my init!" > >* The panic will not happen if you skip step 3. > >The panic will not happen if you type "sync; sync; sync" after step 5. > >The panic will not happen if you wait (an unknown amount of) some time >after step 5.
I can reproduce this on the console of my GCE instance but the timing seems important. It doesn't seem to fail if I ssh in or if I pause between any of the commands. ... gce1# w 7:47PM up 38 secs, 1 users, load averages: 0.69, 0.22, 0.08 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root u0 - 7:47PM - w gce1# shutdown now;logout Shutdown NOW! shutdown: [pid 1071] Stopping cron. Stopping sshd. Stopping ntpd. Stopping local_unbound. Stopping devd. Writing entropy file:. Writing early boot entropy file:. Terminated . Oct 6 19:47:09 pflog0: promiscuous mode disabled Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: gce1# reboot Oct 6 19:47:17 init: single user shell terminated. init died (signal 0, exit 0) panic: Going nowhere without my init! Uptime: 55s Changing serial settings was 0/0 now 3/0 Start bios (version 1.7.2-20150226_170051-google) gce1$ uname -a FreeBSD gce1.rulingia.com 11.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE #83 r306704M: Thu Oct 6 13:22:27 AEDT 2016 r...@gce1.rulingia.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GCE amd64 I haven't investigated the cause yet. -- Peter Jeremy
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