Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:09:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Overnight lobotomy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000719184312.3094E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <lfbszu9n1d.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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On 19 Jul 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: > Did you try SSH or telnetting in from another box, to see if the > kbd/mouse is hung or the entire system was hung? Yes - no response to anything but ping. Because it wasn't *completely* unresponsive, I had hoped there might be some recovery possible. When it came down to it, Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't do anything either. In the end it was the BRB. > I had a 3.x-STABLE system which seemed to flake out and lock me out of > the keyboard and mouse. It only seemed to appear if I had a bunch of X > window sessions going. I can't remember if I could exit X11 with > ALT-CTL-Backspace (dumping all my sessions) or if I had to do > ALT-CTL-DEL, or only the BRB would work. Come to think of it, X did that to me once a while back on the same machine. Alt-Ctl-Backspace got me out of it. But on the occasion I'm whining about, nobody was logged in and the machine should have been idle, being 7:00am and all. > Haven't seen the problem since I moved to 4.0-STABLE. I'll do that, Real Soon Now. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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