From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 10:27:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1494B15390 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik.carlen@telia.com) Received: from d1o29.telia.com (root@d1o29.telia.com [194.236.214.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15560; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:24:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from entityone.leonissystems.com (t2o29p84.telia.com [194.236.214.204]) by d1o29.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA06084; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:24:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Fredrik Carlen Reply-To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Computer running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE freezes completely Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:15:31 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: d93-awe@nada.kth.se, primary@cowmob.nu MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99082019241400.00282@entityone.leonissystems.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Question from Fredrik Carlen Hello! I have a really annoying problem, and I can't seem to be able to find an answer to it on the Net. I recently "bought" and installed FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. I have been using it for a couple of weeks, and it's a very pleasant experience, except for the fact that *every* *single* *day* the system *freezes*. Hangs. I've been told not to reinstall, so, still painfully ignorant in the field of UNIX, I am humbly asking for more knowledgeable help. This is what happens: 1.I log in on my usual, every-day account. 2.I start X up. 3.I start doing the normal stuff, nothing fancy (e.g. reading mail, writing notes). 4.The system freezes. Every input device stops working. The mouse cursor disappering is the first indication. The system is *not* reading from the hard drive, at least as far as I can see and hear. No matter how long I wait, the system won't respond. It's a complete denial-of-service! The only option left is to reboot the hard way. Which doesn't exactly make things better!!! It happens *frequently* in the following circumstances: A. When I try to change something in "preferences" or "options", in any program (epecially Netcape). Sometimes it works, sometimes the system freezes. B.When I am trying to do something in two programs simultaneously, e.g. surfing and writing small notes. (By goood I hope it doesn't happen right now, please, please, my dear OS, just let me finish this freakin' mail!) C. Sometimes without any action from my part whatsoever. And: Once it happened when I disconnected my PPP connection when Mozilla was still downloading a webpage. My experience is that if I have been using X for an hour or so, it *will* freeze. This is my system, in a nutshell: Intel Pentium, 166 MHz. Motherboard:PA-2007 with VIA VP2/97 chipset Video card: S3 trio64V+ Sound card: Soundblaster compatible (ESS ES1868) HD: 4 gigs RAM: 32 megs +I've installed the old object format, aout, to be able to use Netscape. Both my everyday user account and my root account is left as-is, no fancy stuff there. This is the output of "$ uname -a": FreeBSD entityone.leonissystems.org 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 18 04:05:08 GMT 1999 jkh@cathair:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 (leonissystems.org is my fake domain...go ahead, laugh if you want to...) I am sorry if I have missed some section of the FAQ, or "the Complete FreeBSD handbook" I really should have checked, but I am almost *certain* there's nothing there that relates to my problem. I haven't got a clue as what to do, except maybe reinstalling and *not* choosing stuff from compat22...(the aout) Apart from this hassle, I *really* like FreeBSD, and since I am soon working as a security administrator, I can't have this sort of thing happening when I am promoting FreeBSD as the UNIX of choice for PC:s, right? If you could help me, I owe you a big one. Thank you for your time. /Fredrik Carlen, Sweden. mailto:fredrik.carlen@telia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message