From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 22:32:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA23211 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA23206 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA05632 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:32:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:32:04 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5R hanging machine? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ever since I first upgraded my system (486DX-2 66 MHz, 16 Meg RAM) to 2.2.5R it has periodically frozen. Specifically, it is not allowing input from keyboard or mouse, the hard drive light ceases to do anything, indicating to me that it is completely dead, leaving me with no option but to reboot, and all the consequences of rebooting without a proper shutdown. I am going to try to upgrade to -STABLE, but I am short on disk space, so I do not know if it is possible. Does anyone know of something that might be causing this? The logs seem to say nothing. Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations http://www.freebsd.org ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************