From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 18:47:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f150.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D98437B417 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:47:48 -0800 Received: from 24.186.19.146 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:47:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.186.19.146] Reply-To: oldtlhingan@hotmail.com From: "Noone Here" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 -configure causes lock up Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:47:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Feb 2002 02:47:48.0342 (UTC) FILETIME=[24235160:01C1BF39] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whenever i try to configure XFree86 my entire computer freezes - i cant use my keyboard to do anything, my mouse pointer disapears and i cant use ctrl-c or ctrl-bkspace to break out of whatever is happening. i cant even switch screens to try to control it or stop it from there. my output (i copied by hand): XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date 2 June 2001 If the server is older than {blah blah blah} Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 26 21:33:46 2002 it freezes here. i dont know what to do so i shut the power off and restart. then fsck finds some errors due to not being shut down properly... the only weird thing i can see here is that im running 4.5-STABLE not 4.4. also, one of the problems fsck finds, an unref file, has the date and time of the log file above. fsck clears it, but whats going on?? _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message