Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:09:54 -0800 (PST) From: Dinesh Nadarajah <dinesh_list@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.2.1 Freezes ... Message-ID: <20040302130954.75838.qmail@web80605.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi all: I recently intsalled FreeBSD 5.2 and of late 5.2.1. On both systems I am seeing system freeze when I start X. Here are the two cases: On my Dell laptop, X workes fine as long as I don't have ~/.xinitrc. But if I start gnome-session through .xinitrc, the box freezes. When I reboot, FreeBSD goes into an 'entropy harvesting' mode and then asks me to execute /bin/sh and then run 'fsck'. Then had the same experience with a another machine (desktop). Here everything worked fine. I was running gnome, etc. No problems. Then I installed some fonts. No problems. I deceided to reboot. It rebooted and as soon as I typed 'startx' it froze. I had to do a cold boot, and again it took me to the "run fsck" instruction. It ran fine after the 'fsck'. Is there a documented issue like this. I would like to learn more on why this is happening. Any remedies/updates. Thanks. -D
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