From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 13:33: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C551A37BB42 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with SMTP id e74KWoY29802; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:32:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SYSTEM HANGS/WON'T BOOT HELP! In-Reply-To: <85256931.00677475.00@Deimos.smed.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > 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. # fsck /usr and if you hav a /var fsck it as well. Then mount them. > 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. Look in /etc/ttys and make sure that ttyd0 is set to off > 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. Rename the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d by removing the .sh Then it will not be run at boot No idea why it is giving you trouble though. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message