On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Sergio Monesi wrote:

> In message <9701021554.ZM23857@picasso.me> you wrote:
> 
> > > Another thing about xdm, when I do a reboot if it is running, the machine
> > > will not reboot, but will either put me into debuging mode, or completely
> > > lock the machine.
> > Odd.
> 
> I recently tried to use xdm too, and if I do a 'shutdown' when xdm is running
> the system goes down correctly but the 'reboot countdown' stops at '1' and I
> have to use the reset button.

Ok the machine hanging at the end of the reboot count is a new problem 
that has recently appeared. I found that going back to a kernel built 
from the NetBSD source then the problem disappeared. Is this occuring 
with home built kernels or just the ones I have put on line recently.

Cheers,
				Mark


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