Subject: Re: weird console hang...
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/11/2003 11:10:23
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:31:58PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
> i'm trying to setup an ultra10 as a server and i'm finding that when i
> hit ^C on the console to interrupt, say "ls /dev" output my console
> hangs.  i can break to ddb, and sometimes reboot from here, but sometimes
> it will hang at this point.  netbsd is still alive cuz pressing the
> front botton power switch works (ie, netbsd prints a message and shuts
> down.)  anyone seen anything like this before?
> 

I've seen various problems with signal delivery on sa branch way back before it
was merged, don't know current state yet. I'd expect your ls process is
blocked somewhere in kernel and holding its terminal.

	Andrey