RE: hangs up on login prompt (very strange)
5.2 has completely new file system and is know to destroy data and hang causing you to reboot. Submit problem report about what happened to you. If you do not want to be exposed to this problem install 4.9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhang Weiwu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hangs up on login prompt (very strange) Tonight I was reading a webpage, I found the whole X window suddenly doesn't acceput keyboard input any more (mouse works). So I use mouse rebooted the computer. That is a Thinkpad T40 running FreeBSD 5.2 After reboot the whole system hangs up at Login name prompt (even in verbose mode). Ping this box from other computer gets timeouts. I boot into single user mode, disabled gdm in single user mode but next boot I still hang at Login name I also tried to disable all getty but the box hangs right before Login name prompt. I (in single user mode) turned off every service in rc.conf, renamed /usr/local/rc.d but nothing changed. Now I'm backing up all my 40GB data in single user mode through 10MB LAN, it is midnight I hope next morning everything are backed up and I can reinstall FreeBSD and get a working system. But what part do you think in my box made it hangs? _ - MSN Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hangs up on login prompt (very strange)
JJB wrote: 5.2 has completely new file system and is know to destroy data and hang causing you to reboot. Submit problem report about what happened to you. If you do not want to be exposed to this problem install 4.9 ??? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kadmin] [13:47] #uname -a FreeBSD elisha.daleco.biz 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Sep 22 22:02:53 CDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kadmin] [13:47] #mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home] [13:48] #uname -a FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #5: Wed Jan 21 05:41:10 CST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home] [13:48] #mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) --- Sounds rather alarmist; not to mention, it's not *necessarily* true Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hangs up on login prompt (very strange)
Tonight I was reading a webpage, I found the whole X window suddenly doesn't acceput keyboard input any more (mouse works). So I use mouse rebooted the computer. That is a Thinkpad T40 running FreeBSD 5.2 After reboot the whole system hangs up at Login name prompt (even in verbose mode). Ping this box from other computer gets timeouts. I boot into single user mode, disabled gdm in single user mode but next boot I still hang at Login name I also tried to disable all getty but the box hangs right before Login name prompt. I (in single user mode) turned off every service in rc.conf, renamed /usr/local/rc.d but nothing changed. Now I'm backing up all my 40GB data in single user mode through 10MB LAN, it is midnight I hope next morning everything are backed up and I can reinstall FreeBSD and get a working system. But what part do you think in my box made it hangs? _ MSN Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
