---
title: FreeBSD hangs on reboot on DigitalOcean
kind: blog
description: 'My FreeBSD droplets on DigitalOcean used to hang on the following line when rebooted:'
words: 49
readingMinutes: 1
created: '2015-02-10T18:29:33.000Z'
updated: '2026-06-27T21:03:45+02:00'
tags:
  - freebsd
  - digitalocean
  - system-administration
---
`Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec`

I am not sure about this, but the problem might be related to the hostname I gave to the droplets using DigitalOcean's web interface.

It appeared seemingly reliably when naming them like "abc-def", but disappeared when naming them "abcdef.local" or similar, i.e. avoiding dashes and using a domain name.