From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 20:14:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA09568 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 20:14:30 -0800 Received: from jazz.trumpet.com.au (root@jazz.trumpet.com.au [203.5.119.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA09545 ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 20:14:21 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by jazz.trumpet.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA11584; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:03:47 +1100 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:03:46 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Reece X-Sender: paul@jazz To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Hi... > > For the second time in two days, my system just hung, in that, > essentially, no keyboard input was being permitted. > > The first time, I'm sure it had to do with PCVT, in that it happened > the moment after I had modified /etc/ttys and turned off all the console > screens that I'm not using and issued a kill -1 1. Even after reboot, it > hung almost immediately. When I booted up into single user mode, and > turned those ports back on, it was all fine. > > Of significance to note in that case, everything ran fine in the > background, it was just a console lock. > > This second time, though, I don't know...it just locked up > completely. Of note, it seems that when it locks up, one of the keyboard > lights comes on, either NumLock, CapsLock or ScrollLock...this last time, > prior to lockup, ScrollLock came on, and after turning it back off, it ran > for a little bit befor elockingup completely. > > That is the symptoms...now the question...are there any known > problems with PCVT under 2.0.5R that have been fixed in 2.1.0-*-SNAP? > If not...how do I debug something like this? Since it hangs, and doesn't > fault itself, getting a core dump, so I'd think, is kind of difficult... I had the same problem. Since I disabled the screensavers on the console I've had no further lockups.. Perhaps something that needs to be looked at closely? Rgds, Paul.