Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:53:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Paul M. Balyeat" <pmbalyea@mtu.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs? Message-ID: <199810121753.KAA06970@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:06 EDT." <Pine.SOL.3.96.981012081341.13864A-100000@colossus.csl.mtu.edu>
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> Ok, I'm not sure if I'm mailing this to the right people, but this is a > tech support request. This is the wrong place to send this sort of request; try questions@freebsd.org. You'll get much better results if your message is broken into separate paragraphs, and better again if it is logically organised. "Flow of consciousness" is a fine artistic technique, but not at all useful for technical matters. > Anyway, yesterday morning, I woke up logged into my machine (running xdm) > checked my mail (used ssh) then killed all connections and went to > breakfast. Looking over the logs indicates that noone logged during > this time. Came back and tried to logon, xdm would authenticate me, but > wouldn't let me in, the authentication window would simply vanish. I > dropped into single user mode and edited rc.local to eliminate xdm's > command line from the script. During the bootup, I noticed that the > computer was indicating that it had no open ports. On reboot, the machine > consistently froze when trying to start the sendmail daemon, and indicated > that it couldn't bind ssh to port 22 because the port was already in use > (indicated during the DEVFS initialization). - Devfs is not supported - All of the symptoms you describe are consistent with nameserver timeouts. If you had waited a little longer, you would probably found your window manager starting, eg. - You *must* supply error messages verbatim. "indicating it had no open ports" means nothing to anyone. > Upon logging in, I could > only get intermitent network support, usually being forced to reboot the > machine in order to make telnet work. Occasionally, it'd flash the > warning devstat_(I can't quite remember) < 0 on boot up. This message is harmless, but again, if you don't supply it in its exact form, nobody can help you with it. > I've tried > reinstalling, but the boot disk just doesn't find my gateway or > nameserver. This is a classic indication that your network configuration has changed in some fashion. Reinstalling is almost never necessary; FreeBSD is not Windows. It sounds like you're not telling, or plain missing, a critical item. Unfortunately, you're the only person that is going to be able to tell what this is, as we're not there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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