From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 22:10:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29308 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29300 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id AAA25364; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:10:07 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:10:07 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Gregory Bond cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard In-Reply-To: <199901040559.QAA25674@lightning.itga.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Gregory Bond wrote: [...] # - At this point, the only solution is C-A-Del, boot single user, run fsck on # the /var partition (usually somewhat mangled), turn off soft updates, ^D to # start up, and the system is fine. # # Very repeatable, very clearly a SOFTUPDATES problem. Many people are having this problem. I can only speak for myself but I don't run SOFTUPDATES so I doubt very seriously this problem is related to that. The problem most likely is in the terminal code somewhere, and has everything to do with switching vtys and having a PS/2 keyboard. # Any hints about how I can help fix this? Sorry, wish I knew. I've had three lockups like this today alone. :( -steve # Config file attached. # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message