On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:51:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:40:58PM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > For some months I've had increasing troubles with my > > > 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 > > > another round of fsck's, I tried startx. To see what > > > errs might kill the X11 boot. No: same blank grey screen, > > > same frozen mouse,same OS crash. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > > similar problem, please let me know. > > > > > > tia, people, > > > > > > 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 > > > Yes, it certainly could be a bad disc or even bad DIMM. > I'm running an i815 motherboard that had video/audio > built in. But the drive may have gotten kicked or bumped. > How can I test a 40G drive?? > > gary
Well, any program checking every single block on a 40GB drive would definitely take a long time to complete. I was more suggesting that a hardware problem might be causing the lockup, exclusive of the hardrive. I have seen a bad video card cause X to completely crash a system while X is intitializing. If you had an extra video card around it might be worth plugging it in and giving it a try. Nathan
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