On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Rick Updegrove wrote: > Rick Updegrove wrote: > > When I finally got 5.3-STABLE built after several mysterious failed > attempts the machine basically runs fine until... > > I try to "Ctrl + Alt + F1" (or any of the F keys) that will now > consistently locks up the machine. > > If I am quick enough with "Ctrl + Alt + Backspace" or > "Ctrl + Alt + Del" (or ssh from another machine) I can at least get it > to reboot without a fsck on startup. Unfortunately, if I am too slow it > hangs indefinitely. I have had to just power it off several times now > and of course it then complains about / not being unmounted properly > etc. etc. > > Yes, this probably contributes to some of my problems earlier but when I > was running make buildworld from single user mode it still crashed and > despite all the help I have gotten here I still have not managed to > capture a crash dump. > > So, I am running 5.3-STABLE (from yesterday) and all my ports/packages > are up to date and if I forget I cant switch to a terminal while I > experiment with fluxbox or KDE I will always lock up the machine.
Are you starting xdm, kdm or some other display manager on boot? THere's a race you can lose that will appear to lock up the console if the display manager and getty start up on ttyv0 simultaneously. I usually insert a 5-10s sleep in the display manager startup script to avoid this. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
