From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 11 05:56:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA03991 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA03925 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA02502; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:55:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01836; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:39:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970311143950.WR54034@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:39:50 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: nsg@netop.jaring.my (IT Security) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel not stable ? (fwd) References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from IT Security on Mar 11, 1997 19:44:44 +0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As IT Security wrote: > Therefore I later tried to boot the server using kernel.GENERIC and I can > login again but of course the PS/2 mouse was disabled. You don't even need to rebuild a kernel for this. Simply boot with -c, and enable the psm0 device. It's in the GENERIC kernel, but disabled by default (since some keyboard controllers on machines without a PS/2 mouse port tend to jam otherwise). > The next thing that I did was changing the IP address of my server > because I have to move it to another subnet (I edited the > /etc/sysconfig file). .. rebooted the system. During the boot-up process > the machine has to wait for quite a long time when it reaches netstart > process. I'm very sure there is nothing wrong with my router > configuration and connection because I have other machines (NT, Linux and > BSDI) running on the same subnet. Your resolv.conf has became stale after changing the primary IP address. Also, make sure /etc/sysconfig does use IP addresses, not hostnames to setup the interfaces or the static routes. This avoids chicken-and-egg problems. > Unfortunately this is not the real headache. The system is very > intermittent. After leaving the machine for a while i couldn't ping > anymore except to itself. What ethernet adapter? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)