Hangs using X

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:23:41AM -0500, Guillermo Garcia Rojas wrote:
> I've experiencing hangs on my DFly box, since march 28, 29 or 30, I don't
> remember when I cvsuped that time. I have cvsuped 2 or 3 times after that
> days and the problem is still there.
> 
> I have just take times and it hangs after an hour and a half using X:
> GNOME 2.10 running Gaim, XMMS sometimes, XChat, and Firefox. Someone told
> me on IRC that he was having the same trouble with his nVidia card, but I
> don't have nVidia card or drivers for it.
> 
> I can't get any message from console 'cause it just hangs and reboots in
> the moment.

Sounds like a kernel panic. Do you have dumpdev set in /etc/rc.conf
and enough space in /var/crash? It should coredump automatically and
save the coredump after reboot.

Joerg