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List: freebsd-stable
Subject: Re: Kernel fails to boot after update
From: Warren Block <wblock () wonkity ! com>
Date: 2015-05-26 14:37:02
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.20.1505260834050.26442 () wonkity ! com
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On Mon, 25 May 2015, Brandon Wandersee wrote:
> On 05/25, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-options.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> TREV.
>>
>
> Thanks for the link, Trevor. I enabled DDB in the kernel ("options DDB") in
> order to prevent the reboot and learned that the VirtualBox kernel module was
> causing the hold-up (I use VirtualBox very often, so I load the module at
> start-up). I'd forgotten to *rebuild the module after updating the kernel.* I
> feel foolish for having forgotten that---I've been using VirtualBox for
> years---but all is well now. Thanks for the pointers, and sorry for cluttering
> the list with such an inane issue. The quote in my signature seems fitting in
> this case. Anyway, take care, all.
This bit me also. I usually do not rebuild port kernel modules until
after a reboot in the new system, and this is the first time that there
was a problem with that. A boot from mfsBSD and temporarily commenting
out vboxdrv_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf was the workaround.
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