From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 28 18:13:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05755 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bastuba.partitur.se ([193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05744; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (dialup72-3-6.swipnet.se [130.244.72.134]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28516; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:13:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: girgen@mbox.partitur.se Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199709282354.QAA01634@hub.freebsd.org> References: from "Palle Girgensohn" at Sep 29, 97 00:48:35 am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:11:17 +0200 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: Palle Girgensohn Subject: Re: Stable kernels crashes on two machines. WAS: CVSUP woes for Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> >> After installing 2.2.2 Release, I fetched the stable-src and ports, >> compiled cvsup port (not statically linked here...) and recompiled the >> kernel. Then I rebooted, and everything went black. This was done remote... >> :( I pinged to check, but it never came up. I went to the box today and it >> "kept autobooting, running fsck, then autobooting etc.". >> >> This was with a PPro 200. I also did the same thing with a 486 dx2/66 at >> home. I installed Release 222 and cvsup (dynamically linked, but version >> 15.0) from a CD this time (as opposed to ftp above). This kernel doesn't >> work either, but not in the same way, and it does give me a few lines of >> explanation before i dies: >> >> rc.i386 configuring syscons: keymap keyrate font8x16 font8x14 font 8x8 >> screensaver > > please remove the screensaver and try again. > there were problems with the screensaver recently. > please let me know what happens >jmb That made it. I guessed it, but forgot to check. silly... thanks! I'm not sure this accounts for both machines though... I'll check that tomorrow. btw, is the screensaver problem fixed now? regards, palle ________________________________________________________________________ Palle Girgensohn Partitur Informationsteknik AB girgen@partitur.se http://www.partitur.se/