Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 23:37:59 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: emory!freebsd.org!jkh (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: keyboard locks up 950622-SNAP Message-ID: <m0sQ4zn-0000yRC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <6332.803945542@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 23, 95 11:12:22 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Please let me know how you fare with this snapshot. If this is not the right place for this, well just tell me where to go. How's that for a straight line? :) Hardware is ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard - Aries chip set, 486-33 Intel, 16mb, a 1gb segate and a 200mb conner on onboard pci/ide, logitech bus mouse, generic io card, sound-blaster 16 with panasonic cdrom, diamond video vram (968) pci, and the floppy is connected to a WD1007 esdi controller that does not have an esdi disk on it (too hot here in the summer for those monsters!)... all running off of an APC ups. This system has been running dos and linux (1.2.5) for several months doing lots of mail and news (and DOOM) with no problems. I have spent this weekend installing (many times ... from a dos partition) 2.0.5-950622-SNAP onto the last ~700mb of the segate which is wd0... sometimes with only a 250mb dos partition, and other times with a 150mb extend partition also (with linux). I even took the OS2 partition and it's Boot Manager off ... if you all remember my earlier fights with FreeBSD and the BM. The first try was just installing bin. After printing xxxx blocks on debug window I got Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. ... lots of other stuff that I wrote down if it matters. I have not had it crash since with several more installs... bin, dict, info, manpages, compats, sys-src and some packages - bash and other stuff. The failure symptom is the keyboard accepts no commands, nothing, no change screen, no ctl-alt-del, nada... hit the reset button. I *think* it may be related to the number of keystrokes. If I play around with sysinstall enough, it will lock up during the install. It does not take long. I managed to get a kernel compiled and installed but the problem persists. I can give the system lots of things to do and it will run fine for a few hours or I can sit and type and it will lock up in about 10 minutes. Just to be sure, I have tried another keyboard. This happens with csh and bash, no difference there. If say I were compiling trn when this happens, it appears that the compile continues. I just get no feedback on the screen. I have run old SYSV systems for many years but I have little or no BSD experience. I got interested in FreeBSD so I could learn BSD ... that and to get something going so that I could get this Linux stuff off of my disk. :) My network is a serial port and a modem. All of this "net" stuff in /etc is totally alien to me, never mind sendmail. So, not knowing what all to edit and turn on and turn off, could I be configuring (or not) something to cause this? I cannot imagine that to be so, like I said, I know squat about BSD. BTW, about the install. Why, if I gave the dos partition a mount point in disklable, does sysinstall unmount it after loading the various distributions you choose? If you then go to install some packages, first it complains about there not being a CDROM ... but then you can get to the menu. If you go over to the shell and re mount /dos you can get at the packages to install them. That is if you renamed them to something that will jive with a dos filename to begin with. :) A few weeks ago I commented that with a local-time cmos setting, setting the timezone seemed off for me. When it asks "is this right" it gives the offset time. After rebooting, the time *is* correct, however. Want some interesting screen mumble jumble? After the system is up, try running sysinstall from the second screen. :) If I install bin, then after the system is up go back and install say, manpages, it still gives me a "remade all devices". Installing the iozone package failed, said it required sharutils. Well, I have about 473 other questions, but they can wait until I get something that will run for more than 15 minutes. No, I am not compaining... this has been rather interesting actually. :) -- Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> coordinator, usenet volunteer votetakers
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