From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 13:51:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DBC16A4CF for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68DD43D49 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4LKp5ec005469 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i4LKp4fI008843; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i4LKp3et008842; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:51:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20040521205102.GC34378@tao.thought.org> References: <20040521175046.GA557@tao.thought.org> <20040521204058.GK21801@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040521204058.GK21801@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: relatively urgent question (about X) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:51:23 -0000 On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:40:58PM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > For some months I've had increasing troubles with my > > 4.9/4.10 abruptly crashing. This morning I found my > > workhorse server, tao, down and hung up while trying to > > fsck /usr. I cleaned everything thoroughly and then > > started xdm. The grey screen showed, the mouse was frozen; > > after 30 seconds, BOOM. Another crash. After yet > > another round of fsck's, I tried startx. To see what > > errs might kill the X11 boot. No: same blank grey screen, > > same frozen mouse,same OS crash. > > > > I tried /stand/sysinstall to reconfigure X. No luck. > > I'm now doing my next stable sup upgrade and am doing > > yet another buildworld && buildkernel. > > > > I doubt this will resolve the X Window snafu, tho. So::: > > what x11/*XFree* ports do I have to fetch/build/install?? > > ((I'm assuming the reason for the crash was X-related, > > but this is only a first-SWAG.) Also, if anybody has had a > > similar problem, please let me know. > > > > tia, people, > > > > gary, ssh'd in from ethic.thought.org > > Could this be a hardware issue? All other things being mostly constant > I wouldn't think that software usually all of a sudden goes bad or gets > misconfigured. Possibly it got corrupted on the disk for some reason, > but then I might wonder what caused the disk to get corrupted in the > first place. How about trying a new video card and/or peripherals? > This is assuming that your setup was working one day and then the next > went bad, or if it is flaky and intermittent. > > Nathan Yes, it certainly could be a bad disc or even bad DIMM. I'm running an i815 motherboard that had video/audio built in. But the drive may have gotten kicked or bumped. How can I test a 40G drive?? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix