From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 12 06:28:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21348 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21343 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no (2602@urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.184]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA16907; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:28:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:28:10 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul M. Balyeat" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs? References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 12 Oct 1998 15:28:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Paul M. Balyeat"'s message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:06 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA21344 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Paul M. Balyeat" writes: > Ok, I'm not sure if I'm mailing this to the right people, but this is a > tech support request. -hackers is not for tech support, it's for discussions about FreeBSD's inner workings and other voodoo stuff. This belongs on -stable or -current, depending on which version you run (you didn't say - another booboo) > 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. What do you mean by "killed all connections"? > (indicated during the DEVFS initialization). Don't use DEVFS. Did you try to log in on a virtual console and check your .xsession-errors? Did you try to log in on a virtual console and check the xdm logs (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors)? Did you try to switch to a virtual console while xdm appeared to be hung and check what processes were running? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message