hangs during boot of 5.2.1R

[Doug White]

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.

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