Just curious, how many of you run a UPS for your FreeBSD desktop?
I used to have a habbit of just pulling the plug on Win boxes when they irritated me, and never had any issues with 2k+, so I never even considered buying a UPS for my desktop.
The past few weeks, Ive been running electric heaters and occasionally I turned on too much stuff, and kicked a breaker, the first 3-5 times, it all booted back up, and fsck ran in the background, couple days ago Im just chilling watching a movie, and blink, there goes my power, only this time everything was screwy in my WM, so dropped to single user, and fsck reported changed files. tried booting back, reinstalling some ports, but no luck, I just had to reinstall completely.
It probably could have been fixed, but I still have a fair amount to learn, and the time to fix would have been longer than just making it clean, plus a few things from the freebsd-update I didnt like anyhow. Being my only pc here, I needed it working.
Anyhow, I was just wondering. Im a little overly paranoid now, till I get the issue resolved, ACPI suspend seems to be working in this new 8.0 install, whereas it didnt in 7.2, the other morning I woke up, and seen the led's on my monitors were orange, instead of blue(powered up), and I made a freaked out dash for the mouse, to see if it came to life, much to my relief it did.
Side note: I dunno if the suspend is tied into the FreeBSD screensaver or not, I didnt use to run it before, but then realized I was just wasting resources, when I was using xscreensaver to simply blank my screen. Kinda off topic, but I didnt mean to imply that it was actually broken in 7.2.
Thanks
I used to have a habbit of just pulling the plug on Win boxes when they irritated me, and never had any issues with 2k+, so I never even considered buying a UPS for my desktop.
The past few weeks, Ive been running electric heaters and occasionally I turned on too much stuff, and kicked a breaker, the first 3-5 times, it all booted back up, and fsck ran in the background, couple days ago Im just chilling watching a movie, and blink, there goes my power, only this time everything was screwy in my WM, so dropped to single user, and fsck reported changed files. tried booting back, reinstalling some ports, but no luck, I just had to reinstall completely.
It probably could have been fixed, but I still have a fair amount to learn, and the time to fix would have been longer than just making it clean, plus a few things from the freebsd-update I didnt like anyhow. Being my only pc here, I needed it working.
Anyhow, I was just wondering. Im a little overly paranoid now, till I get the issue resolved, ACPI suspend seems to be working in this new 8.0 install, whereas it didnt in 7.2, the other morning I woke up, and seen the led's on my monitors were orange, instead of blue(powered up), and I made a freaked out dash for the mouse, to see if it came to life, much to my relief it did.
Side note: I dunno if the suspend is tied into the FreeBSD screensaver or not, I didnt use to run it before, but then realized I was just wasting resources, when I was using xscreensaver to simply blank my screen. Kinda off topic, but I didnt mean to imply that it was actually broken in 7.2.
Thanks