Boot error
Afternoon All, My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the screen where it pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot options, and then...nothing! Choosing the default option shows a single line /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text= etc,... then the next line shows |, and that's it. All the other boot options show just the | and that's it. I have waited for up to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset the computer. Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0 about 2 months ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any problems, until this. I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button repeatedly which may have caused this. My question to you all is: How can I see what is going on? FreeBSD 5.4 and prior used to show the progress on the booting process on screen, however FreeBSD 6 hides all that and remains at the options screen until the login prompt. Why? That was useful stuff. (But that is a little off topic) The basic question is: How do I go about finding the cause of my problem? Thanks in advance Ron Melbourne, Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.4/211 - Release Date: 22/12/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portsdb -Uu error
Hi everyone, I have just cvsupped successfully and tried to run portsdb -Uu. I received the following error: _ freebsd# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7: /usr/ports/www/mozilla-gtk2 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === french/mozilla-flp failed *** Error code 1 1 error Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you have a complete and up-to-date ports collection (INDEX builds are not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections). If so, then report the failure to [EMAIL PROTECTED] together with relevant details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version, environment and /etc/make.conf settings). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. failed to generate INDEX! portsdb: index generation error __ I have FreeBSD 4.10, I cvsup to RELENG_4_10 and refuse nothing. freebsd# uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.home.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Fri May 28 21:00:30 GMT 2004 This is my cvs-supfile: _ # $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile,v 1.26.2.11 2003/09/12 19:01:13 ceri Exp $ *default host=cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default tag=RELENG_4_10 *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. doc-all tag=. ___ This is my /etc/make.conf file: _ #make.conf file contains options for rebuilding the system and ports from source #Copied from tutorial: Turn FreeBSD into a Multimedia Workstation by Dru Lavigne # CPUTYPE=p3 CFLAGS= -O -pipe CXXFLAGS+= -funroll-loops COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe # #To avoid building various parts of the base system: NO_BIND=true# do not build BIND NO_FORTRAN= true# do not build g77 and related libraries NO_I4B= true# do not build isdn4bsd package NOPROFILE= true# Avoid compiling profiled libraries NOUUCP= true# do not build uucp related programs DOC_LANG= en_US.ISO8859-1 # USA_RESIDENT= YES __ Does anyone know if this is a problem with french/mozilla-flp or a problem with my setup? Do you need more info? Thanks for your help. Ron Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list on this address ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
