> 	the following problems have appeared ever since i have been
> 	using -current [including kernel] from jan 11th:
> 
> 	a. fasthalt just locks the machine up and doesn't reboot.  after
> 	rebooting, bad inode causes panic, subsequant reboot fixes root
> 	partition, and everything goes fine.


Haven't tried this.  I usually only "reboot".


> 
> 	b. keyboard locks up on reboot.  unless i sit there sometime
> 	before or during fsck hitting keys regularily, the keyboard
> 	locks up, even though the rest of the machine is still running.


This has been happening to me ever since my first sup after my winter
break (Jan 4, I think).  I have to hit the enter key at least once after
"Automatic reboot in progress...." appears.  To date, no kernels or source 
rebuilds have fixed this problem.  Irritating, but I can live with it.


> 
> 	c. i've had two completely random lock ups while doing nothing
> 	abnormal [no ide drives any more ;-)]  
> 


I haven't had any problems with my system, which is current, other than the
keyboard lockup during boot-time.  In fact, my system is much more stable
in the last week or so than ever before.  I'm running off an IDE drive
and a SCSI drive, for the record.


-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu

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