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From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Sziget (PinkPanther))
Subject: NetBSD 0.9 reboot hungs
Message-ID: <CCq3A6.D4t@sztaki.hu>
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Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu
Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 10:46:53 GMT
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Hi,

I have a strange problem with NetBSD 0.9, i wonder if anyone has experienced
this:

A getty gets hung on a tty port (silo overflo, it was ok in 0.8 :-( ) with ttyout 
as wchan. If i issue a reboot the system logs the reboot, kills the running processes that can be killed and then hungs. DDB's ps shows that getty is waiting for ttyout, and init is waiting on a wait and reboot is waiting on something. Then i have to press reset. I don't right now have the code for reboot, but shouldn't it timeout after trying to kill the running processes ?
The cause is definitly the hung getty, because if it's not enabled reboot
succeeds. 

			Thanks.
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