From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 16 14: 8:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE38E14BE6 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA67768; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:08:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3808E957.FEC45094@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:08:39 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eirvine Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen Blackness References: <38084BEF.DF198449@tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG eirvine wrote: > > Hi. > > Just cvsupped stable, made a new kernel, made world, rebooted, > and had my dinner & glass of wine :*) > > Came back and instead of my usual screensaver (fire) there was > just a black screen. Keyboard input, mouse input etc did not > change this. No response. > > I managed to login "blind" and issue a "reboot". At which stage FreeBSD > rebooted. I'd like to provide more details -- but my hands - or eyes > were tied. > > After a second glass, I've managed to repeat the problem. Not to appear dense, but you haven't described what you need help with. I assume that you want to find out what's wrong, so I would suggest that you start by logging your build process to see where it dies. I would suggest the following: rm -r /usr/obj/* back up kernel config file rm -r /usr/src/* download and install new sources follow instructions for make world prep on the web site, tutorials section make -DNOCLEAN world 2>&1 | tee /usr/tmp/mw.out Then you can examine the file it creates to determine where the problem is and report back here. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message