From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 9 16:01:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29956 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29951 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:y5oRQanzjLSobpH29K9AooCSBB5lkmdf@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA21582; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:01:11 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id JAA02775; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:04:02 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199902100004.JAA02775@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Richard Kiss cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Near-daily 3.0 Crash Reboots In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:15:43 PST." References: Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:04:01 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am seeing crashes on my Cyrix box ever since upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.0. >I had uptimes of over 30 days on 2.2.8. Now it's usually one or two days. > >The crash is typical: I walk up to the machine, hit "shift" to unblank the >screen. Is the screen blanked by a screen saver? Which one? Or, is it APM BIOS that blanks the display? Is the apm(4) driver included in your kernel? >After the monitor warms up, the text login screen appears (no xdm), Does this mean that you don't run xdm, or you are put in a text vty even though you are running xdm? Do the keyboard LEDs all right? Hit CapsLock, ScrollLock, NumLock to see if LESs are updated as they should. >with the solid white cursor after "login: " as it should be. Which vty? >However, a >blinking underline cursor appears in the top left corner. After I type a >few more keys, which don't echo, the machine reboots. I've never seen any >messages (/var/log/messages has nothing unusual either). Can you switch to ttyv0 (hit Alt-F1)? There may be something there. If you ping this box from another before you unblank the screen, does it respond? Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message