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
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