A couple of things,

I've been running with -current (of 020494 I think) for the last two
days, the IDE drive has locked up twice since my upgrade (which was
one of the reasons for doing the upgrade in the first place!)

With 0.9 it only used to lock up under heavy load (a couple of builds etc)

Under -current it appears to lock up whenever it wants, no need to be
heavily loaded, although under 'no-load' it seems to be ok.

I've had to power-cycle the machine to fix it, if I just press reset it
comes up with a message about timeouts with 0xffffffff (or something
similar).

The first time it blew away all files relating to passwd, master.passwd,
spwd.db and pwd.db. So the normal procedure for fixing this sort of
problem would be to boot single user, copy in a safe copy of the passwd
file, and reboot. Since I didn't have a copy of the password file (can
you believe I do this for a living!!), I put the one from /usr/src/etc
in place and vipw'd it to add my entries and build the db's.

Using passwd to change the root password (since xdm won't accept blank
passwords) I got "who are you..?", on examining the code it seems that
passwd does a getlogin() which is null until you actually log in.

Is this the desired functionality?  On 'other' commercial systems booting
single user to (re)set the root passwd is the norm and you don't have to
'login'.

Anyway, the IDE lockup problem is the real cause for concern, since it's
been around for *ages*, any ideas?

Thanks, 

Lee.

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