Periodic system freezes

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BradJohns94

Hello to all,

This is my second time installing FreeBSD so I'm still a little green around the gills. I decided this time it might be a good idea to try gnome over KDE, so I went right ahead and installed it using:
[CMD=]pkg_add -r gnome2[/CMD]
Post installation I configured it to be enabled in /etc/rc.conf and when I rebooted it came with start up... kind of... all I got was the name of the network, the time and date, a shutdown option, and a help button. After taking the command out of /etc/rc.conf and simply running startx, all seemed to be fine and normal. This lasted all of about 5 minutes before the system froze on me with no response from the keyboard whatsoever. After rebooting the computer (manually since I could not shut down or reboot, even by physically pressing the power button) I discovered this happened again and again, even if I did not start gnome or startx. None of this seemed to have happened before I set gnome to enable in /etc/rc.conf. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong and/or how I can fix this problem?
 
So you can run the machine without X at all, and you still get the freeze? Doesn't sound like Gnome (or X) is part of the problem. You might try Ctrl-t before and after the freeze; that will give you some system status even if the normal shell read is broken.
 
Hey, ctrl_T did me no good, but I did manage to take some notes by not starting X

Code: 
DMA48 error=40
ad653e error=5
panic: ffs_blkfree
panic: buffwrite: buffer is not busy?
cpuid = 1

Now these aren't the entire code, but they are pieces I gathered. Also I discovered that if I'm in X the computer restarts sometimes but if X is not running it tries to restart but fails.
 
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