On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis <bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr> wrote: > On 04/08/15 11:43, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> I did a cvs update yesterday (-rOPENBSD_5_7, previous update toward the >> end >> of June) in the middle of network problems. >> >> Updated src and then ports and then xenocara. Took from about eight in the >> morning to about eleven at night. So, without doing a build, I went back >> and updated ports and then src again, to get everything in sync as best I >> could. Built the kernel, checking myself against the FAQ. >> >> The previous build was with GPT enabled, but this build was plain GENERIC. >> >> Thought login was freezing after the welcome message, beacause there was >> no >> prompt. So I hit the power button, watched it stop CUPS and something else >> and sync, and moved the old kernel back in for a build with GPT enabled, >> as >> a first wild guess. Same results, but I tried a few commands instead of >> just assuming no prompt meant freeze, and the "only" problem seems to be >> lack of prompt. Sort of. Piping to a pager doesn't page either. >> >> "set" does show that the prompt variable and other such things are set >> like >> they're supposed to be. >> >> The previous kernel behaves itself, as it should. >> >> I'm thinking I'm going to go ahead and try building userland, to see if >> that restores things, but I thought I'd ask how unusual this kind of >> behavior between building the kernel and the userland is. >> >> I'll post the dmesg from the GPT kernel, at least, before I start the >> build. I erased the non-GPT kernel without getting a dmesg, but I can >> build >> it again if someone tells me I should before then. >> >> -- >> Joel Rees >> > > why don't you get the latest snapshot and then build on top of that?
I do that, too, on an install on a USB3 attached drive. Last Friday or so I had some X11 issues that I still need to look into. In the meantime, I like to keep this box "-stable" on the internal drive. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html
