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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:50 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM Hanging Machine
Message-ID:  <49E636DA.7050304@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200904150013.n3F0D7XW004721@cwsys.cwsent.com>
References:  <200904150013.n3F0D7XW004721@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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Cy Schubert wrote:
> I thought to post this here before spending a lot of time on this. I have a 
> laptop which normally boots 7.2-PRERELEASE however I do have CURRENT on a 
> USB drive where I'm working on some USB floppy drive code. When GDM starts 
> the whole system hangs. Before digging into this too deeply myself, has 
> anyone seen this before and is there a quick fix? The ports collection on 
> that drive was built on a 7.2 system and copied to the CURRENT system. This 
> may in fact be the root cause and if so the fix is a no brainer.

I believe this is the case.  A hal built in 7.X will not work properly
in 8.X.  It is very kernel-specific.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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