Oh, yes, this sounds really reasonable to me. I will try to disable ACPI, thanks!
2016-05-11 7:59 GMT-07:00 Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com>: > In article > <CA+SXE9s48eSqzhSsZD1L8BO=Z7=do49+oh_qc7dx4o+uewd...@mail.gmail.com>, > Charles Cui <charles.cui1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>some updates of building kernel. >>I spend some time these days to investigate the kernel compiling >>problem that I found earlier. >>I start from netbsd 7.0 -stable, and build a netbsd-current. >>After building tools, kernel modules, I found there are >>two folders, one is /usr/<buildname>/tooldir.NetBSD-7.0_STABLE-i386, >>the other is /usr/<buildname>/tooldir.NetBSD-7.99.29-i386, >>after installing new kernels, when trying to install userland, it will >>report some binary tools cannot be found in the second folder, but >>these tools exist in the first folder. I copied the required tools >>over to the second folder, it install userland successfully. >>I guess in the new kernel, building tools again can also solve the problem. >> >>Although the kernel compiling problem is solved, I observed a kernel >>issue of netbsd-current. >>I used i386 arch on virtualbox, sometimes, it will tell me power >>button is pressed and the system is shutdown >>(I have attached the detailed info below). However, I never press the >>button. I experience this problem >>at least 10 times. To verify it is a netbsd-current problem, I >>installed a netbsd 7.0-stable kernel, >>and never experience this problem again. So, I am wondering what's >>the kernel changes that cause this issue? >>This is not quite related to my projects, but definitely is good to >>let the community know. > > I have not seen exactly that, but I've seen recent versions of virtualbox > aggressively trying to shutdown my vm if the host has low battery. The > simple answer is to disable ACPI for now... It does not affect your tests > anyway. You can do this from the boot command line. > > christos >
