Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:40:58 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: relatively urgent question (about X) Message-ID: <20040521204058.GK21801@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20040521175046.GA557@tao.thought.org> References: <20040521175046.GA557@tao.thought.org>
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--PEfPc/DjvCj+JzNg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > For some months I've had increasing troubles with my=20 > 4.9/4.10 abruptly crashing. This morning I found my > workhorse server, tao, down and hung up while trying to > fsck /usr. I cleaned everything thoroughly and then > started xdm. The grey screen showed, the mouse was frozen; > after 30 seconds, BOOM. Another crash. After yet=20 > another round of fsck's, I tried startx. To see what=20 > errs might kill the X11 boot. No: same blank grey screen, > same frozen mouse,same OS crash. >=20 > I tried /stand/sysinstall to reconfigure X. No luck. > I'm now doing my next stable sup upgrade and am doing > yet another buildworld && buildkernel. >=20 > I doubt this will resolve the X Window snafu, tho. So::: > what x11/*XFree* ports do I have to fetch/build/install?? > ((I'm assuming the reason for the crash was X-related, > but this is only a first-SWAG.) Also, if anybody has had a=20 > similar problem, please let me know. >=20 > tia, people, >=20 > gary, ssh'd in from ethic.thought.org Could this be a hardware issue? All other things being mostly constant I wouldn't think that software usually all of a sudden goes bad or gets misconfigured. Possibly it got corrupted on the disk for some reason, but then I might wonder what caused the disk to get corrupted in the first place. How about trying a new video card and/or peripherals? This is assuming that your setup was working one day and then the next went bad, or if it is flaky and intermittent. Nathan --PEfPc/DjvCj+JzNg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFArmlaO0ZIEthSfkkRAiLkAJ99pZ6lIvbQyp4pDMggLZArvaDAVACg7uJc kRcHPpce7JBcF35okgogtoA= =mhEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEfPc/DjvCj+JzNg--
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