From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 19:55:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362421065703 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:55:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6548FC21 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:55:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3FJYmWB010655; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.220.171] (dhcp-64-102-220-171.cisco.com [64.102.220.171]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3FJYmCw024736; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49E636DA.7050304@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:50 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert References: <200904150013.n3F0D7XW004721@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <200904150013.n3F0D7XW004721@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Hanging Machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:55:44 -0000 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 > > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome