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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:03:46 +1100 (EST)
From:      Paul Reece <paul@trumpet.net.au>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951113150300.11350C-100000@jazz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112155819.194B-100000@rainbow-jr.dreaming.org>

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On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 
> Hi...
> 
> 	For the second time in two days, my system just hung, in that,
> essentially, no keyboard input was being permitted.
> 
> 	The first time, I'm sure it had to do with PCVT, in that it happened
> the moment after I had modified /etc/ttys and turned off all the console
> screens that I'm not using and issued a kill -1 1.  Even after reboot, it
> hung almost immediately.  When I booted up into single user mode, and
> turned those ports back on, it was all fine.  
> 
> 	Of significance to note in that case, everything ran fine in the
> background, it was just a console lock.
> 
> 	This second time, though, I don't know...it just locked up 
> completely.  Of note, it seems that when it locks up, one of the keyboard
> lights comes on, either NumLock, CapsLock or ScrollLock...this last time,
> prior to lockup, ScrollLock came on, and after turning it back off, it ran
> for a little bit befor elockingup completely.
> 
> 	That is the symptoms...now the question...are there any known
> problems with PCVT under 2.0.5R that have been fixed in 2.1.0-*-SNAP?
> If not...how do I debug something like this?  Since it hangs, and doesn't
> fault itself, getting a core dump, so I'd think, is kind of difficult...

I had the same problem.  Since I disabled the screensavers on the console
I've had no further lockups..

Perhaps something that needs to be looked at closely?

Rgds,
Paul.




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