On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:12:48AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:45:43PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 
> > One is that venus starts up and then hangs after printing the 'getting
> > root volume info' line, and a ^C causes it to print 'Venus
> > starting...' and start sort of working.
> 
> Yes, I reported that to Phil Nelson (hi Phil :-) a while back.  After
> the SIGINT is sent things should work fine.  They do for me.  Also, if
> you wait long enough (I have not determined how long is long enough
> but in the order of 5 to 10 minutes or so) then venus will wake up by
> itself.

This sounds a lot like it is hanging on a DNS lookup or something
similar, however I don't think '^C' would abort such a lookup without
killing venus.

Actually why doesn't ^C kill venus? Even if this is in the kernel, the
SIGINT should still kill the client...

Jan