On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com>
wrote:> On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From my older thread, "installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails"
>>
Changing this issue to its own thread.
> [snip]
>> After quite a few rebuilds from scratch, I now have a 12-STABLE system
>> on which synth runs without crashing except that it finds that its
>> Flavors tree has circular dependencies.
>>
> [UPDATE] My machine seems to be stuck on just one virtual console. I
> tried rebooting with GENERIC and the issue persists. This DID occur
> first after completing a synth run in which circular dependencies were
> discovered, but I am unclear whether synth _caused_ something to
> change. Looking through dmesg now.
>
I see that my setting kern.maxswzone=0 did not work.
I have altered it to 17200000. Still no joy on the vconsoles.
I also tried reinstalling the GENERIC kernel as default and that did not work.
Since I am using this mule as a dev system for a server-based
application, I have no WM or GUI activated. I really would like to
have the virtual consoles back, and I will gladly learn from what I
did to mess it up. :D
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Don Wilde
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