From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 10:32:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23461 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com [199.184.182.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23443 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com by fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (8.6.9/FF-1.1) id MAA22946; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:32:19 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id MAA03249 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:03:48 -0500 Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.12/8.6.4) id MAA00250 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:29:56 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199608071729.MAA00250@right.PCS> Subject: Re: locking up To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:29:55 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199608061721.MAA23320@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Aug 6, 96 12:21:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Sometimes, at no predetermined time, without warning, when switching VC's, > > I'll lock up. FreeBSD doesn't lockup just the keyboard, and I can only fix > > it by rebooting. > > A while ago Bruce Evans had posted this, if you run it, it > unlocks the keyboard. I don't know why this happens or why > it hasn't been fixed. The way I run it is to remote login > from some other machine. > > echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem I have the same problem - I'm running 2.1.0R CD distribution, and at random times during an X session, the keyboard just freezes up. Executing 'kbd_mode' doesn't fix the problem either. Logging in remotely and killing the X server clears up the difficulty though, or executing the above commandline. -- Jonathan