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Subject: screen lock up problem (2.1-stable)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:22:14 -0700
From: Tony Jones <tony@ermintrude.sunquest.com>
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I came into work this morning and the display on my FreeBSD system [S3-801/805,
DEC 486/66] was totally locked up.

Blank screen, switching to a virtual console just caused the system to 'beep'.

I was able to get in via telnet, killing xdm/X didn't fix the problem.

No indication of a problem in any log files, the only processes running on
the vty's were getty's which respawned fine when killed. xdm/X respawned fine 
also. In the end I had to reboot.

Last week I upgraded from 2.1-release to 2.1-stable-ctm71, which might be
a factor, though the system has been running flawlessly apart from this problem.

Anyone seen similar, or have any idea what caused the problem ?

tony