I have setup here a FreeBSD 11.1 32 bits in an old PC, an Asus eeePC 900 for testing purposes. The machine works quite well, except that it hangs at shutdown time, either using shutdown -r or halt. Curiously enough, if I press random keys, it goes on, so I suspect it is a matter of lack of entropy. When shutting down, it says: Stopping devd Writing entropy file: . Writing early boot: . Terminated . Aug 6 16:08:55 xxxxx syslogd: exiting on signal...
Originally asked by Rui F Ribeiro on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).