From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 2: 1:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2B1542D for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 02:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04266; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:29:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA76161; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:29:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:29:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Fredrik Carlen Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Computer running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE freezes completely Message-ID: <19990821182915.Z14964@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990821130327.Q14964@freebie.lemis.com> <99082110062600.00285@entityone.leonissystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <99082110062600.00285@entityone.leonissystems.com>; from Fredrik Carlen on Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 09:42:35AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 9:42:35 +0200, Fredrik Carlen wrote: > >> What do you mean by "install"? > > Well, since I'm not proficient in the techno-lingo, I said > "install", but what I mean is i ran /stand/sysinstall and chose the > compat22 option to have support for "the old object format" to be > able to run Netscape... OK. >> I'd guess that this is some kind of hardware problem, but that doesn't >> help you much. The fact that the mouse cursor disappears suggests >> that it's related to X. A couple of things to try: >> >> 1. When it happens next, try changing virtual terminals to, say, >> ttyv1. You do this by pressing ctrl-alt-F2. If this works, it's >> not the system freezing, it's X. You can log in and shoot X >> down. Look for the process called Xwrapper. > > Thanks, man I know, I have your book ;-) > Like I said, its impossible to get the computer to respond to *any* form of > input, including ctrl-alt-F2. OK. >> 2. If that doesn't help, switch to ttyv1 *before* it freezes. >> Leave it overnight or longer to see if it still freezes. You haven't commented on this one. >> 3. If you still have no joy, let's hear more about the X >> configuration. Are you using some exotic window mangler? > > Nope, no fancy stuff there: it's KDE. That's fancy stuff, or at least we've seen bugs in the past. Try using a different window manager for a while and see if it still happens. > Thanks for the support: it feels good to know I'm not alone in my > own personal hell! You're welcome Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message