From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 20:34:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11902 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (root@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu [136.165.243.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA11894; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (wangel@localhost) by wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00578; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:32:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Roberts To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Archie Cobbs , jlemon@americantv.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: locking up In-Reply-To: <3451.839904769@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I get this a lot. It always happens when I'm pressing the CAPS LOCK key > > at the same time as some other key. I HATE IT because I end up having to > > kill about 30 vi sessions, etc., etc... > > > > This is on 2.1.0-R with XFree86 S3 server. > > Does the gdb trick work to get you out? Looks like this is a bug in > our console code then, and not the X server itself. > > > By the way, after killing the X server, you can find the "lost" character > > typed (the one that caused the hang) on the virtual console you started > > X from (eg, at the login prompt)... > > Yep!!! Exact same symptoms here. Oh Soooooooreeeeeen.. We have > another nice little bug for you! :-) > > Jordan > I can get out, with the GDB string. The only problem is, I don't have a machine I can use to telnet into the locked machine with :D Gary Roberts System Admin. -- Altered Reality. http://136.165.243.183 -- Main User Pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email message is copyrighted and is not allowed to be duplicated, reproduced, or even seen on the MSN, AOL, or the Compuserve computer networks.