Subject: Re: Failure to boot -current...
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: current-users
Date: 01/14/2005 00:04:53
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:

> There is a "backdoor" to get into DDB that may work:
>
> ^P
>>>> D/P 80000100 1
>>>> C
>
> If you're lucky you will enter DDB now.

Okay, I managed to break into DDB that way.

What I found out is that the init process is sleeping on "vmmapva". 
Looking at the code, in uvm_map.c, it appears that it's waiting for other 
processes to release resources, which is silly at this point.

How did we get here?

 	Johnny

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