hangs up on login prompt (very strange)

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

JJB wrote:

>5.2 has completely new file system and is know to destroy data and
>hang causing you to reboot. Submit problem report about what
>happened to you. If you do not want to be exposed to this problem
>install 4.9
>

???
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<kadmin at elisha> [/home/kadmin] [13:47]
#uname -a
FreeBSD elisha.daleco.biz 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 
4.9-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Sep 22 22:02:53 CDT 2003
kadmin at elisha.daleco.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
<kadmin at elisha> [/home/kadmin] [13:47]
#mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)

<kadmin at archangel> [/home] [13:48]
#uname -a
FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 5.2-RELEASE 
FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #5: Wed Jan 21 05:41:10 CST 2004
root at archangel.daleco.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
<kadmin at archangel> [/home] [13:48]
#mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
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Sounds rather alarmist; not to mention, it's not
*necessarily* true....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.