From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 05:22:25 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 C35CE16A402 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:22:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA1743D66 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:22:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 21328 invoked by uid 507); 12 Apr 2006 15:22:23 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 12 Apr 2006 15:22:23 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <443CFC84.3050206@tca-cable-connector.com> References: <443CFC84.3050206@tca-cable-connector.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:22:22 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: Regain control of keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:22:25 -0000 > 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? >> On 12/04/2006, at 11:11 PM, David Schulz wrote: > 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. Hmmm, I'm not ready to reboot yet, I want to let the process finish. I can get past the dialogs using cut/paste into the shell with the mouse and klipper. thanks for sharing malcolm