From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 11:52:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [12.20.51.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BEE37BAC1 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joe.Warner@smed.com) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (keymaster.smed.com [12.20.51.2]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCBF16221 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:52:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA32285 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:52:03 -0400 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:50:56 -0400 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 85256931.00677555 ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:50:02 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <85256931.00677475.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:51:43 -0600 Subject: SYSTEM HANGS/WON'T BOOT HELP! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm posting to questions now as a last resort. This morning, I installed UPSMON - 2.1.3 on my PC (Compaq Deskpro 2000) running FreeBSD 3.4. Evidently, there's some sort of conflict going on involving /dev/cuaa0 because after I installed the port and rebooted, my system hangs permanently at this message: Local package initialization:Portname set to: /dev/cuaa0 upsmond<---(this is where it dies) 1. I've tried booting into single-user mode, running fsck and then trying to mount -u / and then /usr but it won't let me mount /usr with r/w because it says the file system is still dirty. I've ran fsck on / and on /dev/wd0s1a and it just keeps coming back saying that the file system is still dirty. 2. I've tried going into userconfig but didn't get anywhere. Couldn't find out where to disable device probing. Also couldn't find any reference to /dev/cuaa0 in here to disable it. 3. I've tried booting from kernel.GENERIC but this doesn't help either, it still ends up trying to run UPSMOND and it hangs. 4. I've also tried booting from the 2nd CD ROM in the 3.4 CD ROM set and going into FIXIT mode but didn't get anywhere with this either. I've followed everything outlined in the chapter Installation Problems, on page 99 of The Complete FreeBSD and nothing seems to help. If someone could provide some information or insight to help get me past this and get my system booting again, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message