Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:49:36 -0400 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system Message-ID: <20141015214936.GB1350@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> on Wed, 10/15/14 at 15:00: > > Can you try building and booting a GENERIC kernel, to at least > establish whether the problem is with your system or with your > kernel configuration? You mentioned that you recently upgraded to > 9.2, but you didn't say what you upgraded from. It is possible > that your kernel configuration didn't pick up all of the changes > that might have been desirable. I made a stupid typo in the Subject: line, but changing that would throw off any threading MUA applications or archivers. I made the "leap" from 9.2-STABLE to 9.3-STABLE a few days ago. At this time I rebuilt _all_ my ports from source -- I know, I know... :-) The idea of using the GENERIC kernel is a valid one and I thank you for the suggestion. I will be back in the office to try this out next week... > To be honest, custom kernels are really only worthwhile for very > specialized appliations these days. I've been doing this since the FreeBSD 2.16 days -- it has just become habit for me... :-( Regards, web... -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON / William Bulley \ / CAMPAIGN AGAINST / X HTML E-MAIL AND / E-MAIL: web@umich.edu / \ LISTSERV POSTINGS / 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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