The machine freezes, responds to pings and changing of virtual console, but accepts no input. Eventually, the trouble turned out to be due to bad hardware. The question was asked whether the -jn option could be reliably employed to make installworld. It seems that it is not the case. The present Conspectus expresses my strictly personal understanding of what occurred on the FreeBSD-stable mailing list during the specified week.
Constructive criticism is more than welcome.
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