Upgrade failure

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I just hurt myself real bad!  :)

Seriously, I'm not hurt, but my main NetBSD server is dead.

I was in the process of updating it from a several-months-old 5.99.39 to 
today's current.  I had already installed and booted the new kernel, 
with new /stand/amd64/5/99/43/modules/ installed, with no problem, so I 
installed userland.  At the same time, I had added some stuff to 
/etc/rc.local to load several modules at boot time: acpibut, acpicpu, 
acpipmtr, and acpitz.

Unfortunately, when I booted, the system it failed to build the pwd.db 
files, and I could not get pwd_mkdb to do anything useful.  It kept 
complaining that it couldn't create the output files, but gave no 
further info.  I grabbed the files from another machine that had been 
updated successfully, and the machine seemed to be happy.

However, on the next boot, the box locked up solid.  I mean SOLID!  It 
doesn't even turn on the fans any more, and it won't even start the 
power-on self-test.  I pulled the battery and tried to reset the BIOS 
settings, but that did not work either.

Does anyone have any clue about how loading the acpixxx modules could 
have confused the box so thoroughly?  And is there any hope of getting 
it operational again?  (I've tried complete removal of power, as well as 
removing the BIOS battery, but no luck.)


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