On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:42 PM Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Wandersee < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 05/25, Trevor Roydhouse wrote: > > > > > > > > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-options.html > > > > > > Cheers, > > > TREV. > > > > > > > Thanks for the link, Trevor. I enabled DDB in the kernel ("options DDB") > in > > order to prevent the reboot and learned that the VirtualBox kernel module > > was > > causing the hold-up (I use VirtualBox very often, so I load the module at > > start-up). I'd forgotten to *rebuild the module after updating the > > kernel.* I > > feel foolish for having forgotten that---I've been using VirtualBox for > > years---but all is well now. Thanks for the pointers, and sorry for > > cluttering > > the list with such an inane issue. The quote in my signature seems > fitting > > in > > this case. Anyway, take care, all. > > > > - Brandon > > > > Put "PORTS_MODULES=emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod" into /etc/src.conf and > it will be rebuilt when the kernel is built. Add others ports that install > kernel modules as well. Space delimit multiple modules. (The documentation > is not too clear about multiple modules. > Unfortunately, this does not work for locked ports. However, the kmod ports must be locked, or else they would be upgraded by 'pkg upgrade' to some unusable version. Maybe PORTS_MODULES should handle locked ports. -- > Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired > E-mail: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
