6.0 freezes shortly after logging in (and at install)

[Alex Popa]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:50:29PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I get some strange freezes with my fresh 6.0 installation.
> 
> After booting for a several times now i got 2 more freezes in not
> coherent periods of time after logging in.
> 
> It is a complete freeze as far as i can explore, neither any keyboard 
> nor mouse input is noticed and keyboard "hangs" also (no numblock/ 
> shiftlock switching possible).
> 
> I am able to access the fs through the other os so i checked the message
> and other logfiles, but i cannot find any panic or other bad logentries.
> 
> 
> Any ideas/ suggestions?
> 
> (Will post this as a new thread)
> Thanks a lot again
> 
> Timm

I have had similar problems with the install / running of FreeBSD 6.0.
For me, the install would freeze at random points in unpacking the
distributions (once catman, once some soures - ssys if I remember
correctly).  I suspected CD or ATA problems - checked the downloaded
image against the MD5 and SHA256 signatures, was OK.  Then re-read the
physical CD into MD5, on two different CD-ROM units, and it seemed OK.

Another lockup occured with sysinstall, at partitioning my FreeBSD
slice, while simply trying to type backspace to delete the pre-set size
and type something of my own as the partition size.  Note that wasn't
the first time I typed backspace, but after already deleting a few
chars.

All of the previous lockups were HARD - in textmode, on the primary
console, no messages on screen, power button wouldn't work, NumLock
wouldn't work.


The solution (as suggested in the Undernet #FreeBSD channel) was to boot
with ACPI disabled.  The system works now with no problems (ACPI still
disabled).

5.4 still works perfectly (including nvidia video card / ethernet from
ports) with ACPI enabled.


Hardware info:  Motherboard Asus A7N8X, CPU: AMD Sempron 2800+, 1 GB RAM
(dual channel).  System runs fine under FreeBSD 5.4-stable (a of 2 weeks
ago), and under Windows XP.  At the time, the addon cards were an ed0
and a rl0 network cards (both PCI), and a SB Live! soundcard.  The
integrated soundcard was disabled in the BIOS, the integrated network
card (nve0) was enabled.  Video card:  NVidia GeForce FX 5700LE.

PS:  I have booted the 6.0 install CD with verbose logging, but still
nothing was printed on screen at the time of lockup.


Hope this helps
	Alex

[PS:  If required, I can add dmesg from both 5.4-STABLE and 6.0-RELEASE,
but I'm not sure I still have the original kernel on disk for 6.0]

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