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From: "XeXeN" <freebsd@xexen.com>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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Subject: Re: freezes at Local package initialization:
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:03:45 -0600
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I let it sit like that for about 12hrs.   Ive rebooted a few times, and its
running on 48mb ram  AMD k6 266 on a Gigabyte mb.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
To: "XeXeN" <freebsd@xexen.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: freezes at Local package initialization:


> XeXeN wrote:
> >
> > On my FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE box, it freezes at Local package
initialization:
> > The only way for it to continue and for me to get to a prompt that I
know of
> > is to hit <ctrl-c>.  This only started happening after I recompiled my
> > kernel, but then again it was after a reboot, so it might have not been
the
> > kernel recompile.  Any suggestions to remeady this problem would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Are you sure it's frozen? How long have you waited? What local packages
> have you installed? Some make take a while to start up (over a minute
> depending on the package, and the hardware you're running)
>
> Do a reboot at some point and give it some time (at least 5 or 10
> minutes) to see if something is taking a long time to start, or timing
> out on some operation at startup. Find out what packages you have
> installed that may be causing the trouble.
>
> -Bill
>



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