From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 16:59:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DE5414E14 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1516 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Jan 2000 00:40:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:40:09 +0000 From: George Cox To: hal Lynch Cc: FreeBSDQuestions Subject: Re: HELP: Hung console Message-ID: <20000119004009.A1487@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hal@sticky.usu.edu on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:16:09PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18/01 15:16, hal Lynch wrote: > System: 3.0 with the bouncing daemon screen saver FreeBSD 3.0 was not one of the better releases. :-/ > What should I do: Short of rebooting what can I do when this happens again? The very least you should do is cvsup to 3.4-STABLE and make world. That will probably fix the problem. Why does a server machine need a screen saver anyway? gjvc -- "Readers who only want to see algorithms that are already packaged in a plug-in way, using a trendy language, should buy other people's books." -- D. E. Knuth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message