Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-04-01 18:03:39)
> Hi,
> 
> (no need to put me in CC everytime, I'm subscribed)

I'm not.  I'm putting you in `To' because I'm writing a mail to you.

> Justus Winter wrote:
> > No.  Although the shutdown sometimes hangs, it is quite reliable
> > nowadays.  Just do a normal sysvinit shutdown (e.g. use halt, or
> > shutdown).
> I did a shutdown -hP now. I did a "sync" before... and I had no 
> ssh/telnet logins to the system (a condition that I know almost always 
> makes a shutdown fail).

Interesting.

> The system remain with high CPU as in the screenshot.

I believe that the hurd console is to blame in this case.

> I checked the threads in debugger, but I got 11 pages of screenshots!

Use `show all tasks' then.

> I do not want to spam the list, so I can send them if somebody finds
> useful checking them.

Don't send screenshots.  If you must, copy the text.  Use qemu's
`-curses'.

Justus