ininite rc loop

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sun, January 23, 2011 9:50 am, Matthias Rampke wrote:
> I've been setting up a DF-BSD home server. After compiling netatalk,
> avahi, and some convenience tools (sudo, vim, screen, zsh and
> pkg_rolling-replace, I think) I wanted to reboot.
>
> Now the machine keeps repeating some part of the boot process (see
> screenshot at [1]). There's a short delay after "loading devfs rules";
> when I press ctrl+c then I can break the cycle.
>
> Subsequent actions are taken as often as the cycle ran (with some
> services complaining that they're already running, other failing to
> bind to ports etc.).

Boot from a install CD - you can mount the drives at that point and either
continue untangling the server or copy off any config files you want to
save, and reinstall.  In terms of absolute time, it may be faster to just
start over if you don't have to do much reconfiguring.  (though be careful
to not put yourself in the same loop again...)