From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 05:11:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D258716A400 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:11:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@tca-cable-connector.com) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A63143D48 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:10:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@tca-cable-connector.com) Received: from [218.16.58.208] (helo=geri.tcaportal.com) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1FTXd31xSt-0004o0; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:10:58 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by geri.tcaportal.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E79C708C8; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:27:02 +0800 (HKT) Received: from geri.tcaportal.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (geri.tcaportal.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17914-02; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:26:59 +0800 (HKT) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (thor.tcaportal.com [10.0.1.100]) by geri.tcaportal.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A89C708AD; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:26:59 +0800 (HKT) Message-ID: <443CFC84.3050206@tca-cable-connector.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:11:32 +0800 From: David Schulz Organization: TCA Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Fitzgerald References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at tcaportal.com X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:37effd271f1273fee1ef7b6f027aaac5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Regain control of keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: david@tca-cable-connector.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:11:00 -0000 i have had the exact same thing when running portupgrade -ra on my freebsd 6.0 amd64, but nothing would help except to power reboot the computer. i tried pluggin in and out the usb keyboard, tried a ps2 keyboard. the only thing i couldnt try if i can connect to it still via ssh. if i couldnt, i would say the machine was frozen. Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > Some days ago I type "portupgrade -a" on a machine which had just got > a clean install of FreeBSD v6, with gnome, kde, sound, graphics, etc. > In other words, a desktop plaything. > > Every other hour or so process would stop at on options screen and > wait for my input. Recently it has stopped accepting input from the > keyboard. The mouse is still active. > > How do I get my keyboard working again? > > impatient > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >