Questions and Answers

Amy Rich

The following suggestion was submitted by James Holtom for the user who was having issues with FreeBSD crashing. I've certainly had enough issues with ACPI myself that it's worth trying to disable it (though that probably won't fix the disk fsck problem itself).

The correspondent with FreeBSD crash problems doesn't state what version is being used. Looking at the panic message, I would suggest that it is version 5.x, on account of the "Terminate ACPI" message -- ACPI isn't found in the 4.x line. ACPI is a known cause of difficulties, and a possible cause of crashes, and consequential file-system problems. Try stopping ACPI from loading at boot time by including the line:

hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"

in file /boot/device.hints

Useful References:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/errata.html#late-news
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html#proc
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-release

A The script dhclient-script writes information into /etc/resolv.conf. Instead of modifying this file directly (since it will get overwritten if/when you upgrade), copy it to another location and make your modifications there.