Hello, I am using NetBSD (9.2 - amd64) from a usb 3.0 drive (hdd not a flash drive). The reason for this is my malfunctioning hdd caddy. This is not to be permanent. As soon as I have the hdd caddy work, I will move that drive into my laptop. But the system is usable with X and TWM at this stage.
I have two problems. One is with firefox and is concerning me more. The other is something small, and did not happen a lot in the 2 weeks I have been using the system. My first problem is regarding firefox freezing up the system. I am suspecting it has to do with my setup I have mentioned briefly above. I have installed firefox. I started firefox. Visited gmail, and searched on the web to make sure the app is running and am able to access the internet. The system became unresponsive. I also remember at some stage that umass did detach or became unresponsive, but not remember the exact message i saw on the tty's. I tried it the second time, and I had the same problem. Would this setup, currently using NetBSD from a usb 3 drive (no flash, actual hdd) cause this issue? The other problem is about X resetting when starting TWM. Here are the details. I have been using NetBSD for 2 weeks now. I am using TWM. When I quit TWM and start TWM again with startx, the system resets. But this happened a couple of times (2-3 times). And not happening anymore. Not sure why. When I looked at the X.org.log in /var/log, the file was empty. What other logs are there on the system? In cases like this where can I look for logs? Do I have to set some logging flags to get more information in these rare cases? Thanks in advance, for any insights, ideas... Regards, Riza
