Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is > > comment: > > rc_interactive="YES" > > rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin > > rc_hotplug="!*" > > rc_logger="YES" > > rc_start_wait=100 > > unicode="YES" > > rc_tty_number=12 > > [...] > > > Hmm. I'm wondering about that rc_hotplug line. I'll try removing it. > > I put it there because I'm a control freak when it comes to > > computers, and I prefer an orderly startup sequence that I can > > follow. > > That fixed it. > > Thanks all for the ideas. Interesting. Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com