Re: Sysinst behavior change? (amd64)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > In between periods of instability on my server, there've been a couple
> > of instances recently where anita cannot successfully install NetBSD.
> >
> > Actually, the install is successful, but when sysinst is finished, it
> > halt's the machine rather than reboot.  So of course, anita sits there
> > forever waiting for the login prompt that never comes.
>
> On i386 and amd64, anita actually expects to see a root shell # prompt
> after it quits sysinst, not a login prompt.

Yes, it got a # prompt, and entered a "halt" command, instead of 
"reboot".

So yes, this is not sysinst issue, but something has changed!


> On my i386 testbed, there have been no failures at the install stage
> since February, and those were from a different cause, so whatever
> the problem is, it doesn't seem to be affecting i386.  As Martin said,
> the final output from a failed installation would be helpful.

I can get a cut-and-paste of it later (I am at work now), but what it 
did was

        # halt
        system halted

:)



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