From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 8:55:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpshb2.statcan.ca (smtpshb2.statcan.ca [142.206.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A16837B4F9 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpshb2.statcan.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtpshb2.statcan.ca (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA05293 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:53:38 -0500 Received: from smtpsha.iusd.statcan.ca (smtpsha.iusd.statcan.ca [142.205.234.131] (may be forged)) by smtpsha.iusd.statcan.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13500 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:45:04 -0500 Received: from msxa1.statcan.ca (msxa1.statcan.ca [142.205.234.72]) by smtpsha.iusd.statcan.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA12539 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:44:02 -0500 Received: by msxa1.statcan.ca with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:35:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Semi-crashed system Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:35:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My Pentium 120 running FreeBSD 3.1 "crashed" yesterday, running on hardware that up to now has been very reliable. Symptoms were: 1) No keyboard input accepted to KDE, but the display was still running, and showing two xclocks, both running, one on a network-connected machine, one local. 2) Hitting ctrl-alt-F2 brought up a login prompt, but it wouldn't respond to the return key. 3) It could be pinged from the other machine, but would not accept telnet or ftp logins, in much the same way as the attempt to login from another tty. So I had to reset it, and let fsck do its thing. What else could I have tried to shut it down properly, please? I have seen this kind of problem before, but can't reproduce it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message