On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:17:27 +0100 Stefan Sperling <s...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 06:05:10PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > hi there, > > > > since a couple of snapshosts back i can quite reliably > > freeze my openbsd notebook simply by leaving it on > > overnight. the desktop is there, all the open windows > > are there, but it has become a painting... > > nothing in the logs, no panic, nothing. > > Sounds like you're in X while the kernel panics. The system is probably > in ddb but you cannot see the ddb prompt since you're in X. > > Can you leave the screen switched to the console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) > over night and check whether a ddb prompt shows up in the morning? > When you have also a ntfs partition mounted, then just try to switch to the console and simply run # ksh /etc/daily as root, and look if it exits normally. I posted a same error a couple of days ago, because I got a freezed X every night at 0:30am. the command `boot dump` and man crash(8) will help as mentioned, if the kernel panics. And I would just umount any ntfs partition overnight. Best, Sebastian. -- Sebastian Neuper <pha...@gmx.de>