From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 12 14:28:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA07304 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:28:04 -0800 Received: from rainbow-jr.dreaming.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA07234 ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:26:24 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by rainbow-jr.dreaming.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA00216; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:10:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:10:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Sender: scrappy@rainbow-jr.dreaming.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi... For the second time in two days, my system just hung, in that, essentially, no keyboard input was being permitted. The first time, I'm sure it had to do with PCVT, in that it happened the moment after I had modified /etc/ttys and turned off all the console screens that I'm not using and issued a kill -1 1. Even after reboot, it hung almost immediately. When I booted up into single user mode, and turned those ports back on, it was all fine. Of significance to note in that case, everything ran fine in the background, it was just a console lock. This second time, though, I don't know...it just locked up completely. Of note, it seems that when it locks up, one of the keyboard lights comes on, either NumLock, CapsLock or ScrollLock...this last time, prior to lockup, ScrollLock came on, and after turning it back off, it ran for a little bit befor elockingup completely. That is the symptoms...now the question...are there any known problems with PCVT under 2.0.5R that have been fixed in 2.1.0-*-SNAP? If not...how do I debug something like this? Since it hangs, and doesn't fault itself, getting a core dump, so I'd think, is kind of difficult... Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.