On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, C. Kukulies wrote: > I'm observing long hangs or even total hanging up of a FreeBSD 5.2.1R > system I recently installed. It is a P4 2.4 GHz, ASUS P4S8X board with a > 80 GB WDC WD800JB-00ETA0. > > I had a panic with X running and while clicking on a html link in > Mozilla (ports version) the X screen froze (I assume it was a panic in > the background - btw, is there a way to switch to an alpha vty when > the panic occurs?) No. Use a serial console to capture it if its reproducible. > After that bad crash I got a background fsck while booting and > the system didn't get after the point 'starting sshd'. > > Next tim it hung at > "Local package initialization" You can use Ctrl-T to see what is running and what its blocked on, if anything. > Any ideas? Boot single user and run fsck manually? Also try disabling background fsck in rc.conf. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Mar 19 2004 - 14:53:21 UTC
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