Re: hurd haning on boot (virtual box)

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-03-15 10:19:15)
> Install went fine, system boots, network works. After a bit it stops 
> working reliable, I wanted to investigate more, but now the machine 
> stops booting. It did previously boot  couple of times
> 
> I can boot in "recovery mode" with success, but if I reboot, I get as 
> far as the attached screenshot.

Oh the joys of the current bootstrap code.

I believe your system actually makes it into runsystem.sysv before
hanging (note the two empty lines at the bottom, one is b/c of
wrapping around after "auth", one is printed from runsystem.sysv).
You can stick a "set -x" into it to see where it hangs.

If I should guess I'd say your root filesystem got corrupted and the
root translator just crashes.  /hurd/startup should notice that but
doesn't for some reason.  Or it ran out of space and thus crashed.
Try to break into the kernel debugger using ctrl-alt-d, and enter
`show all threads'.

As always, fsck early and fsck often.

Justus