>On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:53:32 -0500,
>Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net> wrote:
>[...]
>> it would be saved in X-mosaic-history.  After about 5 minutes and nothing
>> else happening I tried to type in the xterm and it didn't respond then I
>> went to move the mouse and that didn't work.  I tried everything and the
>> only way to get out of this was to do a force restart ctrl-cmd-power key.
>[...]
>
>If I remember correctly, your IIsi doesn't have an FPU, does it?  Even
>when the machine has an FPU, it takes several minutes to launch
>Xmosaic on a 68030 machine (@16MHz, though).  It might be possible
>that X server is taking so much time rendering the fonts Xmosaic
>wants that it cannot handle other events such as mouse movements
>and key events.

Yes I have a FPU 68882 NUBUS adapter card.  IIsi is 68030 20 MHz BTW

>
>What if you hook up a serial terminal to the modem or printer port
>(tty00 or tty01, respectively), run getty on it to log in on it,
>and try to login on the serial port?  It probably is very heavy
>if what I think is happening is indeed happening, but you should
>be able to at least login and see what's going on.

Where would I get a serial console?  Anyway to hook it up so the printer
monitors it?

>
>Ken

You never said wether I should boot in single user mode and run fsck or
not.  Should I or shouldn't I?

Thanks,
Albert