On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Matthew Dempsky <matt...@dempsky.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:32 AM, David Higgs <hig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> While upgrading my snapshot VMs this morning, bsd.rd on both the i386 >> and amd64 produced 'Bad System Call' somewhere between making device >> nodes and reboot. > > That might happen if the bsd.rd you're using for the upgrade process > is older than the sets you're installing. We added a new system call > (getentropy(2)) in the last few days, and libc is already making use > of it. > > If you can reproduce the issue with a fully up-to-date bsd.rd, then > I'd be interested in tracking down what's going on.
Interesting, I didn't know that bsd.rd made use of installed components - I had assumed it was fully self-contained, hence my surprise/confusion. It seems I downloaded bsd.rd shortly before my preferred mirror updated. Everything seems better now. Thanks again. --david
