FreeBSD 5.2.1 Freezes ...

[Dinesh Nadarajah]

Hi all:

I recently intsalled FreeBSD 5.2 and of late 5.2.1. On both systems I
am seeing system freeze when I start X. Here are the two cases:

On my Dell laptop, X workes fine as long as I don't have ~/.xinitrc.
But if I start gnome-session through .xinitrc, the box freezes. When I
reboot, FreeBSD goes into an 'entropy harvesting' mode and then asks me
to execute /bin/sh and then run 'fsck'.

Then  had the same experience with a another machine (desktop). Here
everything worked fine. I was running gnome, etc. No problems. Then I
installed some fonts. No problems. I deceided to reboot. It rebooted
and as soon as I typed 'startx' it froze. I had to do a cold boot, and
again it took me to the "run fsck" instruction. It ran fine after the
'fsck'.

Is there a documented issue like this. I would like to learn more on
why this is happening. Any remedies/updates.

Thanks.

-D