> It appears to work fine for me, using ZA kernel with slightly older
> -current userland (some weeks old). I know it's silly, but
> can you try to rebuild the kernel from scrath, i.e. do
> 
> 	make clean && make depend && make
> 
> Jaromir

Thanks for the tip and sorry for the long delay (busy week).
I updated my -current to 1.6ZC and this works again.
(Note, I skipped 1.6ZB, so I don't know, if it had also worked).

> Christoph Egger wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I am using -1-6 userland and upgraded my -current kernel to 1.6ZA today.
> > After booting it, I was able to login a message appeared which kind of
> > terminal  I have (vt100) but I got no shell prompt.
> > 
> > I tried to log in on another console, too. I got a message about the
> > terminal type (vt220) and that's all. No login prompt.
> > 
> > Without knowing how to engage DDB manually, I was forced to hard reset
> > my machine.
> > 
> > Fortunately, I still have a working -1-6 kernel (without it, my netbsd
> > installation would have been absolutely unuseable till a complete
reinstall).
> > 
> > AFAIK, COMPAT_16 that has been added to keep -1-6 userland 
> > working, I suppose it is broken now.
> > (I didn't have this problem with 1.6Z and earlier kernels).
> > 

-- 
CU,

Christoph Egger
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