I think that this may be a bug?

poffd is the power-off daemon and it shoul;d only be in the 68k
architecture.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glyn Astill [mailto:glynastill@yahoo.co.uk]=20
> Sent: 09 October 2006 10:02
> To: Erik Berls
> Cc: port-cobalt@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: poffd problem
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> I have no idea what I'd be looking for in ttys or how this=20
> would have affected it.
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> However you are correct on the 192, I had put the ip address=20
> in /etc/myname rather than the host name.
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> However this has not fixed my main problem.
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> I have done a brand new install since I first had the=20
> problem, yhen followed the instructions here
> http://www.teraqube.co.uk/software/#s1.2
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> When the install first finishes the display functions fine,=20
> then once I've applied the setup parameters it stops at=20
> >poffd and never displays the hostname and ip.
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> I know the display is still working because if I do a=20
> shutdown - r then it shows the services that are being stopped.
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> I've followed these instructions bang on a few times now and=20
> still get the same problem, I can't see why though.
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> I followed them once before (about 3 months ago) with a=20
> smaller hard disk and the exact same boot image but back then=20
> it worked fine.
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> Bizzare, what does poffd actually do?
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> I'm Confused
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> --- Erik Berls <cyber@ono-sendai.com> wrote:
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> > You might want to check /etc/ttys, there could be a baud rate=20
> > mismatch.
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> > The 192 sounds like it tried to parse the IP address as the=20
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> > breaking apart a dotted quad thinking it was a FQDN).  Do you have=20
> > reverse DNS set up?  Running dhclient?
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> > -=3Derik.
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> > On 10/7/06, Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi people,
> > >
> > > I just got a new hard disk for my qube and I installed the 3.99
> > CD
> > > image.
> > >
> > > All was going well and I followed the instructions here
> > > http://www.teraqube.co.uk/software/#s1.2 to do the basic setup.
> > >
> > > Then I did a shutdown -r to reboot the machine however on bootup
> > the
> > > last thing on the qubes display is Starting Up >poffd
> > >
> > > It seems to get stuck here, does anyone know why this could be?
> > >
> > > I can still rlogin to the qube and instead of the usual # prompt
> > I've
> > > got 192#
> > >
> > > I've not got much experience with netbsd so I'm a bit confused
> > here.
> > > Thanks
> > > Glyn
> > >
> > >
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