From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 12:54:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D947E37B4EC for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9 (hutch-288.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.216]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA31840; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:54:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00ed01c093a3$9e644e60$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , "hawk" References: <200102101855.f1AItGp01203@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Subject: Re: system deteriorating? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:53:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "hawk" To: Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: system deteriorating? > > It's getting worse! *augh* > > Add to the soundcard page faulting (but rplay works), make install not > working, and the printer incommunicando, nd now I have the options in > /stand/sysinstall being forgotten --even though it's marked to save, > resetting each time to 4.2-STABLE rather than 4.x-STABLE. > > help. > > Is it time to surrender, backup, and reinstall? :( > I think that most things are recoverable without a reinstall, but you have to know what has happened before you can fix it. Is this some kind of hardware issue, or is it an operator issue? And if so, what. Until you know that, you aren't going to be able to fix this problem, nor prevent it from occuring again in the future. Josh > hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message