From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 12 05:30:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15091 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:30:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.mtu.edu (news.mtu.edu [141.219.70.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15086 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmbalyea@mtu.edu) Received: from mtu.edu (root@mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by news.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10623 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cslserver.csl.mtu.edu (cslserver.csl.mtu.edu [141.219.150.71]) by mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19480 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from colossus.csl.mtu.edu (colossus.csl.mtu.edu [141.219.151.1]) by cslserver.csl.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/mtumailer-1.2) with ESMTP id IAA21389 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pmbalyea@localhost) by colossus.csl.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5/mtuclient-1.0) with SMTP id IAA14329 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: colossus.csl.mtu.edu: pmbalyea owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul M. Balyeat" X-Sender: pmbalyea@colossus.csl.mtu.edu To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: devfs? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I'm not sure if I'm mailing this to the right people, but this is a tech support request. Anyway, yesterday morning, I woke up logged into my machine (running xdm) checked my mail (used ssh) then killed all connections and went to breakfast. Looking over the logs indicates that noone logged during this time. Came back and tried to logon, xdm would authenticate me, but wouldn't let me in, the authentication window would simply vanish. I dropped into single user mode and edited rc.local to eliminate xdm's command line from the script. During the bootup, I noticed that the computer was indicating that it had no open ports. On reboot, the machine consistently froze when trying to start the sendmail daemon, and indicated that it couldn't bind ssh to port 22 because the port was already in use (indicated during the DEVFS initialization). Upon logging in, I could only get intermitent network support, usually being forced to reboot the machine in order to make telnet work. Occasionally, it'd flash the warning devstat_(I can't quite remember) < 0 on boot up. I've tried reinstalling, but the boot disk just doesn't find my gateway or nameserver. The real kicker is that everything worked the way it was supposed to under windows95. I tried to mount devfs and do something to it, but failed miserably. I've tried going through my /etc and looking for modified files, and I've tried messing with the physical configuration (ie rearranging the cards). As for my hardware setup, we're looking at 2 ethernet cards (vx0 to the rest of the world, de0 for 10baseT connections), an ATI graphics card (mach 64), and an ISA controller for a 1x cdrom. I'm really at a loss to explain this and any help you can offer would be most appreciated. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message