In single user mode installworld gets stuck

[Francois Tigeot]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:03:00AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> 2.9-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly v2.9.1.270.ge88a1-DEVELOPMENT
> 
> hammerfs mounted w/ nohistory
> 
> In single user mode installworld gets stuck at random place.  This
> happens on real boxes w/ ahci and w/ nata.  This also happens in
> virtual machines.
> Pressing ctl-z and then running 'fg', could get installworld out of
> stuck state, however, it still could get stuck later on.
> 
> In contrast, in normal mode, installworld will not get stuck as far as
> I have tested.

Some signal issue perhaps ?

I have seen exactly the same behaviour with kaffe on NetBSD. The patch
in this PR fixed the problem:
http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44222

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Francois Tigeot