From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 13:17:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2147A37B4EC for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1ALEIj03320; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:14:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200102102114.f1ALEIj03320@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: "Josh Paetzel" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system deteriorating? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:53:40 CST." <00ed01c093a3$9e644e60$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:14:18 -0500 From: hawk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. I have no idea what led to it. I had a weird install where i deleted /usr/X11R6 and had to reinstall over that. I've reinstalled everything over the existing installation, copied the assorted password files back into /etc, and at least make is working again. It still can't talke to the printer, and I'm wondering if cat-ting to /dev/audio is just dumb-I can run realplayer 8 and rplay without a problem. This system *shouldn't* be my primary for more than a month or two longer (which is why I put off using FreeBSD rather than Linux in the first place); supposedly a laptop is in the works, and we're trying to work out a sparc or rs6000 as well. hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message