From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 21:52:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C2FEFF9 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f52.google.com (mail-wg0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5D2681A for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id a1so2342576wgh.35 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:52:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :user-agent; bh=RAJjN66S82QhScm/9iJvQtzJ/tl6/mZDyBx7PfCi7Dw=; b=JJ2fw2auShcUN7zii0NgyrHm4hHM3fBdT+1qbrduuSb9Cf1lt+hA/p+QHh54kUOu35 3dB3Pz1QaHxUGv09EMzxete9+s71zWJW0o0s5zjiNjpE4nzTbq1mNSgaj/xY4SWZEEsQ q6jujkTCF++LaYBqB7URTjLUe7hda/7aNRN7iFr8iGrL8BjuGy7GEjR85DIPMTrdpSoz qLYO9cPxjCyYYeKHQN/6IpTxLz5npE9qNjxrc5hIMrACtSzK3TEY8DL15QqdRNExwXyj tp+06bNvfQ/aUMD+aiPmEpUryGriQsAs2W92jNpljY9hT1DNO8ix8CJfcHuiE/EBbFIq SDLw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm6noyEFrt0G9scGf7mueVfwx8EzKgqRSnB9AZwNsts/3m7WJMzyukjsoF7XCSC1RMQo67m X-Received: by 10.194.8.73 with SMTP id p9mr15264769wja.87.1413409935191; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu. [141.213.135.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bi7sm20722457wib.17.2014.10.15.14.52.13 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:49:36 -0400 From: William Bulley To: Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system Message-ID: <20141015214936.GB1350@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Lowell Gilbert , Warren Block , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:52:23 -0000 According to Lowell Gilbert 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 ----------------------------------------->|