Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 02:02:37 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *strange* Message-ID: <20000506020237.A729@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20000505200327.A11398@tao.thought.org>; from kline@tao.thought.org on Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:04:12PM -0400 References: <200005060210.TAA11126@tao.thought.org> <20000505200327.A11398@tao.thought.org>
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You may have a user process hanging up the system. Try pressing Control-c after the hang. I have noticed that sendmail would periodically do this if my machine was disconnected from the network, the way I had it set up previously. --cokane Gary Kline had the audacity to say: > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 07:10:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in the 5 years of FBSD. > > > > Nutshell, I messed up the installation of 4.0 and reinstalled by > > Upgrade from my 3.2 CD. > > > > The machine boots to the date stage and hangs. I can, however, > > telnet in from this platform into root (!flame, please). As > > root from this xterm, I'm about to re-CVSup everything. > > > > Any idea what could be hanging the console and preventing it > > from giving me a login prompt?? > > > > PS to the above: I hacked /etc/ttys to let me login > as root by telnet; I may have hacked the file too much > and made getty unhappy. Guess. I'm not going to > upset cvsup right now, tho. > > -g > > > -- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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