Bug #2718
closed
usbd_enable="yes" in /etc/rc.conf can cause a server to be unable to reboot without manual intervention
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Description
I installed 3.8.2 from a CD on a server the day before yesterday, the default /etc/rc.conf that came with it, modified initially by me only for the networking setup, had usbd_enable="yes" in it. When I tried to reboot, after stopping sshd but before getting to devd, it just stopped. I came back in person the next morning and just hit ctrl-alt-delete, and it resumed the reboot process and booted up normally. I changed the usbd_enable="yes" to no, and that fixed the problem.
i don't know if this affects all hardware or just the supermicro I ran this on, but unless you have physical/ipmi access to a system, this would make reboots impossible remotely.
Updated by swildner about 10 years ago
Does the box have /usr/sbin/usbd?
It should only exist on systems compiled with WANT_OLDUSB but not for usb4bsd which is the default. The /etc/rc.d/usbd script has a check so it will do its thing only if /usr/sbin/usbd exists and thus be a no-op on default usb4bsd systems.
Updated by zcrownover about 10 years ago
ls /usr/sbin/u*
/usr/sbin/usbconfig /usr/sbin/usbdump
No. This was with the stock kernel in the 3.8.2 ISO. I have updated it since changing the usbd_enable="no". I pulled the source and compiled with the default configuration options.
Updated by zcrownover over 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
I no longer have access to any physical servers to test this on and cannot verify the issue, but it only affected the one physical server.