Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:59:42 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Reece <paul@trumpet.net.au> To: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951114085833.13434C-100000@jazz> In-Reply-To: <199511131419.OAA08697@ns0.netcraft.co.uk>
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On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Paul Richards wrote: > In reply to Paul Reece who said > > > > On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > For the second time in two days, my system just hung, in that, > > > essentially, no keyboard input was being permitted. > > > > > Which version are you running? > > I had this happen a lot with 2.0.5 since it didn't handle keyboard > disconnection and unplugging and putting the keyboard back made it > dissappear. I also had it happen "randomly" quite frequently but > I put that down to the some quirk triggering the same problem. > > When I upgraded to stable the problem went away BUT I did have it happen > to me once about three days ago shortly after reboot (5 mins say) just > after upgrading to stable again. That's the only time it's happened in the > last 6 weeks or so but there may be a problem lurking in there somewhere. > > This is with PCVT. > > I've had worse problems with syscons. There's something wrong with syscons > vt switching, it's not completely reproducable but it happens frequently > enough that I've now switched all our machines to pcvt. The symptom is that > when you switch VT the screen goes completely blank and further attempts > to switch VT just gets a beep (as though no VT was configured). Everything > is still running (getty etc) but the screen is just totally blank. Only way > to recover the console is to reboot. well, my problem is a full lockup on the whole machine - no core dumps etc etc.. A reset is the only thing that will fix it :( Turn off screen savers - no problems (this is with syscons btw) - P
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