From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 07:56:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B9316A420 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6959913C4D5 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l877uO90080305 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l877uON3080304 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:56:23 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20070907075623.GA80230@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Subject: crash instantly after successful login X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:56:42 -0000 guys, late this thursday night on newtao, when i tried logging in--after a crash and reboot, totally unexpected--i logged in as "kline", a gnome app tried to collect data, then the OS crashed. after three times i successfully logged in a root, under gnome, and poked around hald seems to have been missing. [???] then i found this at the end of /var/log/messages: Sep 6 11:45:24 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp3 Sep 6 11:57:15 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1 Sep 6 23:24:22 tao2 kernel: pid 671 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Sep 6 23:24:23 tao2 gdm[657]: Error reinitilizing server Sep 6 23:57:30 tao2 shutdown: reboot by root: Sep 6 23:57:33 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Sep 6 23:59:29 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel if anybody has seeen this before or otherwise knows what is going on, please let me know. i did pkg_delete x11-fonts/webfont, fwiw. thanks much, gary ps. i'm updating my ports tress and will let the portupgrade -aP run overnight. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org