Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:42:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Steven Kehlet <kehlet@techfuel.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird hangs: networking hosed (except for ping), can switch consoles but can't type Message-ID: <19991222114237.A77916@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912220928190.9458-100000@phoenix.techfuel.com>; from "Steven Kehlet" on Wed Dec 22 09:36:53 GMT 1999 References: <29181.945860885@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912220928190.9458-100000@phoenix.techfuel.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 22), Steven Kehlet said: > Thanks! :-) Good questions and I forgot to mention answers to them. > What is weird is there are no hints in /var/log/messages--there are > the normal system messages and then just nothing when the box hangs. > > I do have a monitor and keyboard on the box, but unfortunately when > you walk over to it there aren't any weird messages or errors on the > screen. And then--here's the *really* weird part--you can Alt-F1, F2, > etc between virtual console screens but nothing else works--nothing > you type shows up on the screen. I don't know if Ctl-Alt-Del would > work because I have that turned off in the kernel (too many NT admins > near my box... ;-) ). I've had that happen when the IRQ in the kernel didn't match the IRQ on the card. It'd lock up on the ifconfig line in rc.network right away, though. See if you can get a backtrace out of DDB (hit CTRL-ALT-ESC, then enter "trace") -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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