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Old 6th May 2009
GardenGnome GardenGnome is offline
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Was X in use at the time of the hang?

A machine which is hung, but looping in the kernel, can be forced into the ddb> debugger if the OS is still able to accept console interrupts, and not in X, and if the sysctl ddb.console=1 is set. This sysctl must be set while in single-user mode, or from /etc/sysctl.conf. The crash(8) man page has additional guidance.
X is not installed on that machine, running only console and console frooze,
could do nothing with the keyboard, will try the ddb thing if I don't get progress
with the ACPI thing BSDfan666 pointed out.

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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
I would actually try using ACPI on this system, 4.5 has come a long way since 4.3.. might be worth a shot.

boot> boot -c
UKC> disable apm
UKC> quit

If this works, use config(8) to save the changes permanently.
Will try this and get back when done.
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