From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 26 15:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27480 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA27470 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA19428; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonathan Fosburgh cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5R hanging machine? In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > 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. Can you telnet into the machine from remote? Is there any sort of panic output on the main console or in the system log? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major